Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...like impulse is admirable, and true to that everlasting spirit of youth, which in nations as in men leads to the accomplishment of stirring deeds, and the overleaping of the slow ways of commonsense. But in this war, which is one without romance and without chivalry, we have no resources of any kind to expend in a show of gallantry. Those boys, almost young men, who are not called on nor needed by our armies, will find the best way of helping their country in continuing the course of education they have begun, fitting themselves to be strong and honorable...
...laws of the Medes and the Persians. But the Medes and the Persians being dead, their laws are not worth the traditional scrap of paper. So the dulators of our present laws should not exercise in part an authority which they ceased generations ago to exercise in spirit. The Blue Laws may well be stricken with blue lightning, and vanish in blue smoke...
...presided, and speeches were delivered by President Hadley, William P. Gould Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and Secretary Wilson of the present Cabinet. The speakers did not devote all their time to explaining the nature of the loan and its terms, but laid emphasis on the patriotic spirit which must be displayed...
...front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...
This is only the number of those who were ready to go without question and at once, according to the records. As the percentage of those who would go to war at the first call from a spirit of adventure is only about one-tenth or one-fifteenth of those who will willingly go when called upon (as the experience of England has shown) then we may count on four or six million men whose love of country, unlike their love of adventure, is superior to selfish motives of physical immunity...