Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems a simple duty for all Westerners to meet them in a benevolent spirit, to try hard to understand their motives, and to decipher their words and deeds in the best sense we can. Very much is in the game for everybody, and for us in Europe, everything...
...about the Victorian theater, which a great many people had frowned on. "The small son of that great actress, Mrs. Kendall," he recalled, "on his first day at . . . school . . . was asked by an elder boy, 'Your mother is an actress, isn't she?' He replied with spirit: 'If you say that again I will knock you down...
...confirmation of his ex-Unitarian wife and his three children, and was off to Notre Dame to be assistant professor of economics. As a teacher he hopes to "show up Communism in theory and practice." Said Budenz: "Communism, I have found, aims to establish a tyranny over the human spirit; it is in unending conflict with religion and true freedom...
...Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond; TIME...
...worldly ways, "Pater's" school was a high success. Rich & poor alike partook of his simple religious faith and his exuberant spirit. The boys made their own beds, waited on tables, worked in the kitchen, did practically all the physical work of the school. This "Kent system" became famed in the secondary-school world and was aped, in varying degrees, by many another school. Kent's oarsmen, coached by Pater himself (an ex-coxswain at Columbia), rowed at many a famed Henley regatta in England...