Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Women are bewitched by the divine spirit firing my soul. When this sublime force fills me, my face blazes with love, and I am transformed into an object of admiration. I beckon to women and they come...
Signer D'Annunzio, foremost of Italy's poets and World War heroes, spoke outside the canons of Anglo-Saxon good taste but spoke the truth. None the less, Hearst Editor Brisbane, conqueror upon no field of arms, and certainly of no spirit so exalted as the great Duse's, was moved to carp, last week, at Poet Gabriels...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...
...sermon-lecture in Manchester College chapel, and those present recalled that when last the British Association met in Oxford, 32 years ago, Sir Oliver had startled many by a demonstration that electromagnetic waves ("radio") could be used for signaling, without communicating wires. His subject this time, of course, was spiritism. He began by showing how physicists have proved the nonexistence of a "material" world (all "matter" being ultimately composed of whirling particles of immaterial electricity). He ended by predicting "revolutionary" scientific discoveries in a spirit-world that surrounds the one we know. "Mercifully, things are screened from us that...
...look either tired or sad. That was one of the rare occasions when he looked both weary and saddened. And I felt sure then that as his excitement waned the personal injury produced by the desertion of so many men he had counted on weighed heavily on his spirit. He shook his head a little sadly. Then he smiled and sort of tossed the mood off: " 'Oh well, James, I see you're still with me.'" Quentin was also with him then- poor little "Quinikins," who was later shot down in an aeroplane over the German lines...