Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line are Spartan days of work at the War Office. He and all his subordinates arrive at 8 a. m. Two days a week he breaks the morning by a horseback ride from 9 to 10 a. m. Lunching at the officers' mess, where both Japanese and Western food is served, he often orders ham & eggs, washes them down with tea at a total cost of one yen (50? at par, now about 7?). Younger officers knock off about 4 o'clock for tennis or other sports. Not so the tireless oldsters and Lieut.-General Araki...
...rare honor for a man.* Their Majesties then jointly had the "Devil Tycoon"? to lunch. Straight from their Royal Palace he drove to an ugly alley, so narrow that his limousine could not enter. Alighting amid frenzied cries of Banzai! he squeezed down the alley to his tiny, Spartan home...
California is a country which resembles Greece in its brilliant skies, its hot bright landscape with blue waves curling at the edges. Its inhabitants have a Spartan pride in physical perfection, an Athenian confidence in their own Golden Age. The steady splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them...
Particularly amusing is the visit of the head of the school board. Penrod is reading to the class his "model letter to a friend," just as disastrously pilfered from his sister's writing-table. Another high point comes after the Spartan initiation of Georgie Bassett, when Penrod and Sam report upon Georgie's indocility with a bereaved and Christ-like air. Georgie, the "little gentleman," has been badly over-directed in playing the bespectacled prig, with an unpleasantly forced result...
...Pius, the Premier continued "I will not admit that anybody, absolutely not anybody, shall touch in any way that which belongs to the state. . . . The child, as soon as he is old enough to learn, belongs to the state alone. No sharing is possible. Maybe this will be judged Spartan doctrine carried to an extreme. One can not deny, however, that it is clear. We are in process of reconstructing Italy?a great Italy! It is a colossal task such as I do not believe has often been tried. The antique city [of Rome]has nothing in common with...