Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit, One For The Money offers Cafe Society what Pins and Needles offered workers and Sing Out the News offered New Dealers. Indeed, in holding the lorgnette up to Nature it makes Noel Coward, at times, seem like a proletarian writer...
Year ago in Memphis, Tenn., a haggard, burning-eyed, 100-lb. clergyman, Dean Israel Harding Noe (pronounced No-ee) of St. Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal), fasted himself into the news (TIME, Jan. 31, 1938). Attempting to prove that "the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink," Dean Noe kept it up for 22 days, was then deposed by his bishop for his "vagary" and taken, gravely ill, to a hospital...
Before the meeting a message was read from President Conant praising the principles on which the meeting was called and advocating a "kindly spirit of tolerance...
...poke his head inside the door and moan a sorrowful "Stamford," or "Bridgeport," or "Saybrook." However when the train was approaching the captial of Rhode Island, the monotony was broken. The conductor opened the door to make his usual station identification, but he was a changed man. The sterling spirit of the N.Y., N.H. & H. asserted itself as he loudly proclaimed. "The next station is Providence, just another one of the big cities on the New Haven Railroad...
...Crimson has traditions and spirit behind it. But in order to maintain these traditions and nurture this spirit, it needs good men. Tonight at 7:30, the Crimson opens its winter competition for the News, the Editorial, the Business, and the Photographic Boards--to which all capable men are invited...