Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spirit of Voltaire...
...July 27 issue of your valued publication there appeared a double-page advertisement of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, in which the spirit of Voltaire is portrayed as speaking through a village grocer in defense of liberty of expression: "I wholly disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death, your right...
Towering over New England's minor characters are Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Longfellow Mr. Brooks finds a charming, almost saintly spirit, a great figure, if not always a great poet. Never roused to malice even after his fame had become worldwide, he befriended cranks and freaks, longed wearily for a snowstorm that would keep celebrity-hunters away from his door. "A fathomless calm of innocent goodness brooded in the air that spread with Longfellow's poems over the world." Ten thousand copies of The Courtship of Miles Standish were sold in London in a single...
...This is more than a deviation which can be corrected, or a lapse which can be cured, or an honest mistake which can be forgiven. It discloses a perversion of heart and spirit which can neither be remedied nor condoned...
...their walls had been freshly plastered at dawn with posters reading: "The Government measures were made necessary because the country was on the eve of an outbreak of a subversive and seditious movement fostered by Communist propaganda and aiming at disaffection in the Army and the spread of the spirit of Anarchy...