Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legation and saw the press before going to the White House-a procedure that allowed him to be franker with newshawks than if he had seen them afterward. To all suggested topics for discussion at the White House, he replied either that he might bring them up if the spirit moved him, or that he would be glad to discuss them if the President wished to. Only one small slip did he make. Forgetting for the moment that the New Deal has taken many emergency measures and that his prospective host had proclaimed a New Crisis only the night before...
General Hugh Johnson-who did his political duty by addressing a Victory Dinner at Newark, N. J.-best described the spirit of the occasion when he wrote that the dinners were "backed by a big enough election triumph to justify serving stewed elephants." The 1,300 Mayflower diners ate their way in triumph through terrapin soup, pompano, breast of capon, coupe nougat quarante-six (Maine & Vermont excepted). But when Franklin Roosevelt rose and began to speak, the levity ended. His first few words were spoken with his most studied earnestness. He was addressing the electorate far more than his Party...
...Delaware County introduced a bill with the shortest title ("To Cure Lawyers' Mistakes") of any of the 1,201 measures filed in the Harrisburg House this session: "All mistakes by lawyers are hereby erased, but every one else shall be required to abide by the letter and spirit of the laws. This statute shall work prospectively and retroactively forever...
...reading in 1906, good retelling in 1937. Cried City Editor Jack Barrett to staftmen as he scuttled from a saloon at 5:20 a. m. on the morning of the earthquake, "Boys, it looks like the end of the world!" Oldtime San Francisco Hearst-readers recalled this light-hearted spirit as typical of the early Examiner in the days when young Publisher Hearst would hire a special train to get his news crew to the scene of a fire; when publisher & reporters had fabulous fun at Hearst's house in Sausalito; when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils...
...small but sternly independent preparatory school is Gunnery, which has perched in the Berkshires near Washington, Conn. since 1850. Founded by an abolitionist named Frederick William Gunn, Gunnery still warns parents that "luxury, waste, and soft living are contrary to the spirit of the school," although such rich boys as Robert Lessing Rosenwald of Abingdon, Pa. now go there. In its long career Gunnery has had only three headmasters. Last week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother...