Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid your land will be confiscated," he said in one speech. "What is confiscation? Will they take away your lands to England?" In another speech he set forth the principle that was to govern every Congress struggle of the future: "Every home must be a Congress office and every soul a Congress organization." Under Patel's orders the peasants' buffaloes, which the Government might have taken, were brought right into the peasants' houses. No servants would work for the Government collectors. Nobody would sell them food or give them water. Some property was, of course, confiscated...
...Democrats were almost as happy at the thought of the party sniping which was to be their pleasure & privilege. Neither party was ready to start the partisan fighting. The result was a ponderous and overwhelming spectacle. No man is ever as lofty, as noble, as pure of soul and mellifluous of voice as a Congressman being polite, and last week they were polite en masse. The bowing, beaming and yielding to interruption was worthy of a light quadrille...
...airliner, he is not apt to feel that he is a specially marked person-usually quite the contrary. Young Bill Keyes, settling into his seat in an Eastern Airlines DC-3 in Detroit, felt as air passengers usually feel-partly like a piece of baggage, partly like a lonely soul. As the plane stopped at Cleveland and Akron, the seats filled up around him. Dozing, thinking of his vacation-to-come at home in Boynton, Fla., he scarcely watched as the plane lifted over the Alleghenies and dropped down toward the Carolinas...
...evils of occupation and the total destruction of our beloved country did not affect our soul which, we are proud to say, is the soul of Greece...
There are Kern melodies from musical comedy hits and from Hollywood, patter songs and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," frivolity in a corn-laden rendition of "I Won't Dance" and theater with a soul in a reproduction of the original setting and arrangement of "Old Man River." Some of filmdom's greatest are hauled in to do their bits with varying results. By far the worst of these contributions is a second round with "Old Man River" with Frank Sinatra, the co-ed's Caruso, sliding all over the range in an effort to bring this great folk-tune...