Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes later arrived one of hundreds of congratulatory telegrams which had deluged Hyde Park that night: THE NATION HAS SPOKEN. EVERY AMERICAN WILL ACCEPT THE VERDICT AND WORK FOR THE COMMON CAUSE OF THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY. THAT IS THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY. YOU HAVE MY SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS...
...artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month she announced she would...
...year ago with fanfare and celebration in Sanders Theatre and wafted out this morning by the gentle zephyr of a Chapel service for the founder, the year that has held the mirror up to Harvard's greatness now goes into history. Yet it is typical of the spirit of Harvard's past that the leaders who breathed life into the Tercentenary exercises were thinking not so much of resting on laurel's already won, but of meeting today's challenge to higher education and of making the Harvard of the future a vital center of learning in America...
...whole mess may rightfully be blamed on the deplorable lack of Electoral College spirit. In another month the electors will get togethers in some hall and cast their votes just as if it didn't matter which way they went. How can they expect Landon and Knox and Roosevelt and Garner down there on the field to give everything they've got when the Electoral College boys sit back on the bleachers and say isn't it a shame we haven't had a good team since Lincoln and Hamlin...
...most discouraging odds has brought applause from even the most partial observers of Princetonian sympathies. The first touchdown was no tricky pass or dramatic run. It was fought for, inch by inch, and showed more than any one thing what the Harlow team has now become. The new spirit was shown again in the trench warfare which marked the third period. Time after time Princeton reached Harvard's three--yard line, only to be pushed back onto less dangerous ground. From such skirmishes it was unreasonable to expect perpetual success. The defense couldn't work every time, and Harvard proved...