Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final spurt of the New York theatre season, traditional accompaniment of the holiday spirit of Easter Week, finds both managers and the amusement public vastly more optimistic about the ultimate future of the legitimate drama than at the corresponding peak period of last Christmas. Strictly from a business standpoint, the winter has offered lean pickings for producers in general, but since January 1, many of these have prospered exceedingly. And today there are more than a dozen shows on Broadway which distinguish the theatrical years as one of the best in some time...
...last week urging certain reforms in the Fogg Museum, and while I am in agreement with the recommendations for library hours, entrances at night, and improvement of the lighting and ventilating systems in this building, I can not but feel that there was in evidence a narrow and selfish spirit in regard to the Radcliffe students...
...them at the pier, took them to City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...
Theologians have decided that it happened on a Friday, April 7, 1899 years ago. At 3 o'clock the women and gamins who had climbed the hill, and the casual Roman soldiers who had gambled for the clothes, heard the words, "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." So brave, so peaceful was the death that even the Romans were troubled. Clouds gathered and there was an earthquake...
Artist Rockwell Kent said "exceptional knavery." Juror Richard J. Walsh of The John Day Co., said "miscarriage of justice." Jeweler Chapin Marcus, of Marcus & Co., Manhattan jewelers, said "little evidence of professional spirit." General Manager and Publicity Director Charles A. Hammarstrom said nothing. Advertising men in general said "regrettable...