Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposition or "small navy" group is small in number, robust in spirit. A possible filibuster from this source is conceived to be the only obstacle to the bill's passage...
Daniel is known as the leading spirit of the group. During the War he took the lead in seeing that the Government was supplied with copper at half the prevailing market price. Before he was 40 he had crossed the Atlantic 70 times. He is a patron of Art, Music, Literature, horse breeding, horticulture, an excellent geographer and anthropologist, a noted philanthropist...
...would they be failures? In a previous article the writer stated that there are certain groups in Harvard College, among which is the one with the social complex. This group will support college dances either through a spirit of tradition or a desire to let the "girl back home" get a view of Harvard College glory. The Freshman Jubilees and the Junior Proms are indeed sorry specimens of Harvard glory...
...spirit of emulation, as President Lowell points out in his last annual report, should help to accomplish this--the desire of each "house" to achieve intellectual and athletic distinction in rivalry with its fellows. But this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald...
...company has no weak points and all the characters help in maintaining the frothy spirit of the play. Mary Nash, in the part of Manuela, coos and poses most alluringly in her tryst with Gaston in what she calls the "seductive surroundings" of his office, and furnishes one of the high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give...