Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign any more requisitions for liquor importations. The Drys hailed him as a "great good fellow." South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease, prime agitator for Dry embassies in Washington, took off his hat and bowed to him. He was saluted by Henry Ford for his "fine old English spirit...
...grey, women of the sixties . . . you gave the South a song, a sentiment, a story that will live forever. ..." "Jefferson Davis loved the Union with all the devotion of his heart. . . ." "Slavery was not the cause of the war. ..." "Our victory was essentially a victory: of the spirit. . . ." Such were a few of the many words that' fell upon the ears of 4,000 tottering Confederate veterans, their wives and progeny gathered last week in Charlotte, N. C., for their thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters...
Onetime Minister of Justice Louis Barthou's inscription was: "It is spirit which prepares for peace-it is hearts which make...
...place it is necessary that they have, in the memorial chapel about to be. The new chapel, it is averred, will not honor in its halls the Harvard War dead who were so unfortunate as to perish on the Teuton side. The Sargent murals are in keeping with this spirit ... not with that of the finer, older and far more useful library...
...standards from a study of human behavior. . . . Both sides must recognize a serious menace to vital Christian faith in the humanist movement. The urgent task for Christian scholars is to state the conception of God in Christ convincingly and to help build a Christian Church which will embody his spirit...