Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were to see a Portia who was neither an old stager nor an eager young thing with stiff knees and an Eve's apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago, an astute Jewish criminal lawyer offered Miss Inescort a job on his staff. Another episode of the tour: at Detroit, though he did not appear at a performance. Henry Ford mended the Inescort watch...
...mankind cannot be overestimated. Private collections are a joy to their possessor, and often enable scholarship to perform work more congenially than is possible in a public institution. By placing their valuable possessions at the disposal of scholars and learned societies, many collectors have enriched literature. By their public spirit they have glorified public collections. It is not difficult to realize the value to scholars, and thence to literature, of the accessibility of books in such collections as the Widener at Harvard, the Huntington in California, and the Morgan in New York City. Incidentally, the Huntington Library owns the most...
...most sought-for are the books of the Nonesuch Press, the Golden Cockerel and the Cresset Presses must also be mentioned. Cresset has just issued an excellent Pilgrim's Progress, although many will not like it. The book is beautiful, nevertheless,--possibly too traditionally conventional,--but in it the spirit of Bunyan comes back to us again, with his mourning garments and his somber musings embodied in the black binding, the blacker wood-cuts, and the heavy solid page...
With the blight of the hour examination hanging heavy over Cambridge and the coming of a few warm days to make its inhabitants begin to count the weeks to June, the Vagabond began to yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...
...fact that there has been no notice able decline in the student attendance at games during the past several seasons seems to indicate that the modern undergraduate is satisfied with the status quo. It should be remembered that against the impersonality and what can almost be called pseudo-professional spirit of the modern contest must be balanced the improvement in quality of the football which is witnessed, as well as its superior meriover former days as spectacular entertainment. The obstacle which has asserted itself time and again in this discussion of overemphasis has its root in the unfortunate failure...