Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conspicuous around the "campus" are the mysterious sanctums of the secret societies. No living soul, supposedly, knows the membership of these organizations save the members themselves, and no person of the outside world has even seen a member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...
...life as sympathetically as Alexis de Tocqueville, and despite his foreign habits and ideas, made a profound impression on young Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson met him by chance in a St. Augustine boarding house one winter, described him as "an ardent lover of truth," a "scholar," a "noble" soul...
...Angel Field had had enough. Said he: "I cannot justify to myself . . . the continuous meeting of the deficits." If advertising would sully PM's soul, as Editor Ingersoll believed, then PM would have to be sullied. Said Ingersoll: "I have no choice but to resign...
...bright feature of No Leave, No Love: a too-brief specialty act by Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson. This remarkable, seven-year-old, 50-lb. Negro prodigy sings and plays boogie-woogie piano with his soul, eyes, fingers, fists and elbows...
...House. There are those who believe him one of the great political figures of the 20th century. This little, unbending college president and scientist was a true maker of history. He found the spirit of the country low and immediately transformed it into the likeness of his own sprightly soul. Despite his unusual success as head of the government he remained an educator first and always. One of his initial moves was the inauguration of a night-school for legislators "to save the English language from humiliation" which action caused the senior senator from Mississippi to exclaim, "Well, shet...