Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until two hours later did Paris learn the news. . . . Even dyspeptics chuckled, and men of spirit openly roared at one another over café tables: "Vive Daudet! Vive l'Audace...
...they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code, from 'the letter which killeth to the spirit which giveth life.' It is recognizing that the only way to come at the truth of these matters is through free discussion of them. It, too, is experimenting...
...they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.-ACTS...
...worked themselves into hysteria, declared the deacons. They had been practicing Pentecostalism assiduously, vehemently. In the description of Reporter Hugh O'Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, "prayer meetings continued late into the night, with men and women intoning Scripture, chanting hymns and imploring the Holy Spirit with ardent cries to come into their souls-at times even falling to the floor of the church and lying outstretched on their backs, rigid, while their lips streamed mystical sounds, supposed to duplicate the 'Gift of Tongues,' such as accompanied the coming of the Holy Spirit...
...Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week at the War-ravaged town of Luneville, was indiscreet to the point of eccentricity; but apparently M. Poincaré is so tired of "Locarno-talk" that...