Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would give humanity, especially the Far Eastern Countries, not words, but proofs that the Western countries have, above their more immediate problems of material nature, a spiritual force emanating from the spirit of brotherhood...
...That in the heat of battle he had lost his head; that he had determined to quell once and for all the spirit of revolt that is apt to affect second-term Congresses; that he was ignorant or heedless of the fact that by his course he was permanently splitting an already divided party and risking everything to gain little, even if he won on the immediate Court issue...
Your May 24 treatment of my Bulkley letter was fair and even co-operative in spirit and I wish to drop you a note of thanks...
...more dangerous to the latter than Mayor Shields was a movement going forward among the Johnstown citizens who fortnight ago spent $50,000 advertising Johnstown's woes and protesting the interference of C.I.O. Last week it was learned that a guiding spirit among these citizens was John Price Jones, famed Manhattan publicist and fundraiser. A former resident of Johnstown, he had foregone his Harvard reunion to help formulate and promulgate nationally a "Johnstown Plan," calling for a chain of citizens' committees across the land to protect the right-to-work against exponents of the right-to-strike...
...that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery. "I give general support to this bill," concluded the Bishop of Birmingham, "not because of concessions to a semipagan community, but because it seems to be legislation in accordance with the spirit of Christ...