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Word: esprit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square Garden watching Duse play little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Miss Frye has the same elan, the some esprit, the same biceps...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...Roman gladitorial combats with mob action as the climax of a college athletic contest. The CRIMSON admits that the Lampoon extra sent to the stadium immediately after the game last Saturday was a clever parody. The CRIMSON is not unwilling to rejoice at a rejuvenation of Lampoon esprit de corps. However, the CRIMSON believes that the notice of the death of Coach Roper placed on a paper which was circulated among the Princetonians as an authentic CRIMSON can only be paralleled in poor taste and bad judgment by the editorial which was published in the regular number of the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON AND HARVARD | 11/9/1926 | See Source »

...morale . . . tawdry esprit de corps" in hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...there is a lack of confidence on the part of governing boards in the executive who should represent them, there will be unrest, discontent and even disloyalty, permeating the whole organization." - Dr. Christopher G. Parnall, Rochester (N. Y.) Gen eral Hospital. Personnel. A low standard of morale and tawdry esprit de corps in hospital organizations is "the pernicious anemia among chronic hospital ills. . . . Discipline in a hospital must necessarily be strict, but I am not in sympathy with militaristic methods. Meagre pay does not encourage loyal service. Too long, in hospital administration, have we been expecting something for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospitals | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Boston is a moral city. And art and morality seldom go hand in hand. At least one has to forget the one to effect the other. Of course one must define this morality as a compound of decadent Puritanism, conventional Catholicism, and that esprit de corps which sends so many faithful followers herding into Copley every Monday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRICAL SEASON | 9/25/1926 | See Source »

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