Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons for Hutter's selection were given as his remarkable performances, his competitive spirit and his co-operation with his teammates...
...oratory will facilitate mulcting the audience of its coppers to improve the efficiency of loyalist machine-gunners. The Student Union has thus committed itself and its hearers to a certain set of preconceived ideas, to a "cause" which, however, emotionally satisfying, is hardly enlightening. Unless the Union recaptures its spirit of impartiality it will stray from the road of greatest usefulness and popularity and inevitably lose itself in the narrow, trackless paths of partisanship...
Connie Mittendorf, too, may surprise. The Maestro of Payne Whitney considers him one of his greatest competitions. When a job 's got to be done, he just sets out and does it with tremendous spirit. Down at Navy, he came within one second of the record for the 100-yard long-pool race...
...inevitability that drives the picture on. Mizzi doesn't need to rouge garishly and wiggle her hips to show that she's free and easy. The men in uniform don't feel called upon to swagger and shout orders and twist their mustaches in order to demonstrate their army spirit and discipline. There's no order of onions in the tears, and no emotional laryngitis. In short, its just good plain honest acting...
Last fall certain Adams House residents exemplified this spirit when they produced two plays, one of which a student directed. In accord with the informality of House plays is the fact that no House, except Eliot, has set a rigid precedant. The various organizations, the first of which was initiated by Tutors Matthiessen and Spencer in the first year of Eliot House's existence, like to experiment with works of different periods, such as Elizabethan, Restoration, and even modern plays. They tend to favor the sock over the buskin in an effort to be anything but professional...