Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distant in kin but near in spirit to Louisiana's late Huey Pierce Long is his California cousin, Minor Pierce Long. Round, pink-faced Mr. Long is a Missourian who went west and into the dairy business, picked up extra money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed...
...before the week was over two events, one in Europe, the other in Can ada, one a thing of spirit, the other of flesh and blood, had served to unify Cana dian opinion. One brought into the fold Canada's dissident minority, the 2,500,000 French Catholics of the Province of Que bec. The news which fired them was the entrance of pagan Russia into Catholic Poland, the leaguing together of Satan's archangels, J. Stalin with A. Hitler...
...Smith's outlook on music is sociological, stems from his interest in people, their customs and living conditions. In no slumming or night-out spirit did he shepherd his fellows to Harlem. He says of U. S. folk music: "It's the best thing we have. It's as American as chewing gum and Mark Twain, good and tawdry and proud...
Around Joe Howard, Producer Rinker built up for CBS a show called Gay Nineties Revue, in which, every Sunday evening since July, grey old Joe has been barking up the gaslit atmosphere of Tony Pastor's and the spirit of Maggie Cline. Joe sings his own songs, hails such ghostly patrons as Lillian Russell, Diamond Jim Brady, Lily Langtry, David Warfield, Lew Dockstader and the Madison Wheelmen, while a good, corny music-hall ensemble vamps till the performers are ready with standbys like Daisy Bell, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl...
...Herman Weisser was beheaded for stealing shell parts. Income taxes were upped by 50%, taxes on beer and tobacco by 20%. The tax on radios was made practically confiscatory and the death penalty ordered for those caught listening to foreign broadcasts. Public dancing was prohibited as incompatible with the spirit of the times...