Word: spartanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diligently prayerful Methodist and a tireless preacher of Spartan virtues to indulgent Chinese is enterprising Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the best man to head the Chinese Government in living memory. Last week he connected the Chicago of his country with its New Orleans, sent the first train chuffing 700 miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...
...study in Vienna, marrying Katie and taking her along, not because he wanted her but because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan boy with a greying fox in his bosom. When an accident ruined his right arm, Katie left him. Meantime Beverly's wrong husband had died, so at last their tragicomedy of errors came to a rhymed conclusion...
...Rockefeller children-Abby, John D. Ill, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, David-have been brought up with Spartan simplicity and considerably less pocket money than most of their classmates. Mrs. Rockefeller has never bothered to own a diamond tiara or a box at the opera. She likes to do her own shopping, and she does most of it on foot...
...Royal Palace amid huzzas George discovered that adolescents of the Young Monarchist Society had chipped together, bought and installed in the picturesquely Spartan Royal Palace...
However snobbish Groton may seem to outsiders, it is both democratic and in some respects Spartan within. Boys still wash up in tin basins at long soapstone sinks where hot water taps are few. Neither boys nor masters enter the infirmary without a faint feeling of shame. Endicott Peabody at Cambridge was a great oarsman, and exercise at Groton is "almost a sacrament." The Rector permits tennis and golf but he encourages the rough team sports. Until rivals raised too loud a clamor, he and many masters played on the school teams...