Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birthday comes as a very pleasant event. In fact it is in the highest degree gratifying to think that over a century and a half ago the father of his country had the remarkable foresight to be born just at this time midway between Christmas and Easter, when the spirit is wearied with much study and what...
Automobile headlights threw a low glare over the Army polo field at Havana as Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh settled himself in the Spirit of St. Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis...
...London, men of the city communed over a tale last week. They thought of it, in essence, as of a temperance milk shake poured upon a table-fountain sizzling with champagne. The spirit of the milk shake is a British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits...
...oldtime schoolboy technique where one blithe spirit would put a pig in the Bursar's office and none but the pig would "squeal"-what of that technique, where Hardihood was learned through punishment and Eternal Friendships were bound with bonds of silence...
Cynical expressions of the ironic variations of human behavior are surely less sound than statistics derived from oft-demonstrated laws of genetics. Missionaries must have good health, energy, moral fervor, the spirit of adventure; hence their sons are likely to have the same. College professors must be morally and intellectually sound; their sons are likely to be so. A minister's calling brings him, Dr. Huntington pointed out, into contact with high-grade women, one of whom he is likely to marry. Said Dr. Huntington: "I may be prejudiced, but I am inclined to think that ministers get better...