Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court proposal-as well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress with some misgivings; we suspect that the spirit of fair play may search him out and plague him in the pages of the New Republic as well...
...musician, at the age of 17 had composed an operetta, Happy Jack, which is still performed in U. S. schools arid colleges. During his career as a composer he wrote four operas, four symphonies, innumerable songs, cantatas, tone poems. Able, though rarely inspired, Composer Hadley was a leading spirit in San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club, titled his most popular Overture In Bohemia...
...reply. Governor Rivers belatedly learned that Governor Hurley had spent most of the week at the bedside of his 8-year-old daughter, ill at the Hurley summer home in Hull, Mass. He wired: "Having a daughter and granddaughter of my own . . . I can sympathize with you. May the spirit of the all-wise Creator comfort you in your trouble...
...perishing totally at the hands of Communism . . . feels herself protected by a power which until now has guaranteed the fundamental principles of all society. . . . We affirm that the war has not been undertaken to build up an autocratic state over a humiliated nation, but simply that the national spirit should arise with the strength and the Christian liberty of older times...
Last Sunday Friend Jones spoke to the Conference and the world on an international radio hookup. Said he. "Quakerism as a way of life partakes of a universal spirit. . . . It is a movement at heart mystical, i. e., seeking fellowship with God. . . . Quakers . . . are bound to keep humble and to recognize their littleness. The Quaker philosophy of life sees in a human spirit something that of all things in the universe, is most like that ultimate reality we call God, Who is Spirit. Spirit like ours cannot come from anything else than Spirit...