Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invited to join. This much relieved Socialist Premier Leon Blum of France. It was understood that the position of both London and Paris was substantially covered by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept. France does not wish to add to the all-too-real causes for conflict...
...Reina, El Escorial and Toledo near Madrid and, on the north coast of Spain, started a drive toward Burgos which, since the sixth day of the war, has been the Capital of the Whites who acknowledge Francisco Franco as their President and Generalissimo. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, the Whites replied to the Red execution fortnight ago of the eldest son of Spain's onetime Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera by reporting executed last week at Segovia José Largo Calvo, 22-year-old son of the Premier...
...George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...
...Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...
...particularly the "shooting expedition" of the seven directors of the Athletic Associations concerned are happy augeries for the future. The hunters should return with the only conceivable alternative to President Conant's program for endowing athletics in their game bag--a well formulated plan to revive the languishing spirit of amateurism...