Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Custer, S. Dak., went the President and Mrs. Coolidge, saw there a pageant representing scenes in Black Hills history from the time when the Great Spirit set aside the region as a place of particular beauty and sanctity. The most spectacular part of the spectacle was not on the program, but came when two horses scheduled to stage a runaway from a covered wagon attacked by Indians ran in earnest and evaded cowboys posted to round them up. Toward the packed crowd surrounding the field galloped the horses. Mrs. Coolidge covered her face with her hands...
...Fascismo has its muskets, and above all it has its courage and in domitable spirit and in its veins runs the magnificent Italian blood which does not give way in face of danger, which loves to fight and is patient of pain and suffering. We could have resigned ourselves to continuing to be a small nation, tolerated by Europe and by the world. But we have chosen the more difficult road because we know that it will lead to liberty and greatness...
...SOLDIERS, we are confident that all, from the chiefs of the army to the humblest soldiers, will give proof of that spirit of discipline which is the pride of the army, and that you will remain worthy of the confidence which your country has placed in you, devoting all your strength and souls to the fatherland and throne...
...just such a story,* with the high seriousness of a prophetic pantheist. He follows the Rev. Dr. Barclay, a man of 50, from a deserted pulpit southward down the Pacific coast from Monterey. Common sanity is dropping from him like a cloak that he may carry or not. His spirit runs naked to the spirit of the hills, of the "iron wind" on the sea promontories. He will be possessed of a god beyond the old ethic, "good and evil...
...house, Morhead returns, made more bestial by War. The women are drawn to the God, "the black maypole," on the mountain, which now is scourged to the north by fire from the camps. Natalia smothers her child to preserve its innocence. April, informed with her dead brother's spirit, smuggles out a pistol to kill her father but quails at sight of him, shoots herself instead. He roams back into the burnt hills, fasting, escaped from human automatisms, inexhaustible, thirsting to create...