Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scandinavians: In Rockford, Ill., he noted the Swedish population's celebration of Leif Ericson Day, cried: "The descendants of the Scandinavian people have not lost in a thousand years the spirit and fortitude which Leif Ericson so well demonstrated...
...that this tradition is in a large part a tradition of men suc has Kittredge, Theodore Roosevelt, Copeland, T. S. Eliot, Lippman, who as undergraduates at Harvard have helped to form the Advocate into what it is today. Very often indeed the format and design have changed but this spirit of independence has stood throughout...
...pays those tutoring bills, then Harvard herself is open to charges of commercialization despite all assertions and other examples to the contrary. When any group of athletes is forced by a rigorous time schedule away from the prior claims of academic subjects, that group is not true to the spirit, or even the letter, of amateurism...
...Margate or about his pipe or his pigs. Stanley Baldwin was absent and absent too was the amiable humbug with which he has led Great Britain for so long, meandering down the winding path of least resistance in both home and foreign affairs. A reborn fighting Conservative spirit was stirring at Margate last week and the Party was veering toward new leaders-slowly, for in Britain the political mascot is always the tortoise rather than the hare...
...standard of judgement must be pronounced Fascist rather than Communist. The Republicans are walking on equally thin ice when they attack the the A.A.A. For if what Governor Landon is promising is not an A.A.A., it is a reasonably exact facsimile. The "class hatred" bogey has been used with spirit, but it was the Republican Theodore Roosevelt who started the march and coined the phrase, "malefactors of great wealth...