Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fireballs. Having thus tried Cleveland's spirit of hospitality, Witnesses turned to their own affairs. More than 2,500 of them, togged out in bathing suits, playsuits, pajamas or long underwear, waded hip deep into Lake Erie to be immersed backwards in its waters. (Baptizers, chilled by the four-hour ceremony, swigged from a bottle of port wine...
...Edna, declared the ancient (seventyish), roly-poly Messiah, was reincarnated the spirit of his first wife, Mother Divine, who died a few years ago. "Trace your thoughts back to what Mother said," Father urged his sheep. "She wants everybody to love me. . . ." Also, this was a spiritual deal-"not the marriage of a natural...
Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson, who three years ago happily moved to New England-"the epitome of the American spirit . . . the home of American culture"-was ready to get back to New York City, to "bring up our children under democratic conditions." He had discovered "the stultifying atmosphere of New England prejudice; it's in the air, you get it on all sides, there's no pretending it isn't so, it can't be ignored. . . . The children are as bad as their parents and grandparents. Education has really done them no good...
Every night at 10 o'clock, the Shoalers hold a candlelight service in the spirit of their hymn...
Last week, after years of squabbling, the family kissed & made up. In a spirit of sweet accord, Pan Am and Grace jointly announced a 99-year agreement under which Panagra will offer direct daily through service from the U.S. to South America, with Panagra planes and crews flying over Pan Am's routes from Miami and New Orleans to the Canal Zone and going on from there as usual. All that is needed now is the official blessing of CAB, which has already nodded approval...