Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indian stalked into the Nemenway Gymnasium with the confidence bred by one triumph over Harvard and sundry other victories over its Intercollegiate League rivals. he sent his second-string warriors after the Crimson scalp, but the supposed victim was in no mood to stand the red skins outrages, and with the battle half over the invaders called for help. The proud Hanover chieftan summoned his strongest front, but to no purpose. The second half was as much of a rout as the first...
...Presbyterians will meet in General Assembly at Grand Rapids, Mich. Nearly half the delegates will be Fundamentalists in fighting, angry mood, 'determined to eject Liberalism root and branch. All the delegates will be faced with the necessity of raising $15,000,000 to provide munitions for the Church Militant at home and abroad. All of them will be confronted with the 20th Century challenge to the Cross. They must have a leader, what they call a "Moderator...
...Jazz--good jazz--is America's only original contribution to the music of the world", continued Professor Hill. It reveals a typical American mood and possesses a new and vital-rhythm. How far that mood and rhythm may be applied to what you probably call 'highbrow' music remains to be seen. Some American composer with a proper sense of style who is well grounded in both types of music may embody all the features of jazz in a symphonic composition...
...Crimson five, determined to emerge from the rut of defeat, will be in a mood boding ill for their opponents when they face the Rhode Island State quintet at Hemenway this evening...
...been expected to forget such things may be useful in sustaining them but makes the basic point of view scarcely less childish. It is the point of view of "Don't come in to my back yard"--a sentiment one could expect from Penrod only in his most egotistical mood...