Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. "Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. "There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of others much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. "In this world of ours...
...entrained at Washington, detrained at Philadelphia, drove into Franklin Field a few blocks from the convention hall. Carpeting the ground of the great stadium below the speakers' stand sat the tattered veterans of the convention soon to be invalided home. Around them, wet by showers but undampened in spirit, sat a new bevy of New Dealers, 100,000 strong. National Chairman Farley had rallied them to adorn the Rooseveltian triumph; 200,000 tickets had been printed; Philadelphians by the thousand had been enlisted at booths where the tickets were distributed free; Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City had delivered...
...more literate, more persuasive. Brief, vigorous, and general, speaking in terms not of legislative plans but of glorious ideals was the platform Franklin Roosevelt had drafted. It recalled the Declaration of Independence by six times sonorously repeating "We hold this truth to be self-evident. . . ." It invoked the spirit of Roosevelt I by promising to end "the activities of malefactors of great wealth. . . ." Its ringing eloquence was reiterated in the chorus: "The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. We will keep him on that road. . . . The worker has been returned. . . . The American businessman has been...
...plays Florence Nightingale, nurses' special saint, in The White Angel (see p. 49), was put on exhibition, along with her director of this latest Warner Bros, cinematic biography. Handsome, informed Susan Catherine Francis of Philadelphia, president of the American Nurses' Association, talked about "the old pioneer spirit" which stirred the nurses to go West for their conventions. Dr. Annie Warburton Goodrich, 70, dean-emeritus of Yale's School of Nursing, stirred them deeply by declaring...
...wants to leave its past policy of inspiring individual Rotarians to active support of outside peace movements, we will be playing with fire. If Rotary splits into parties with national points of view, what will be left? The resolution is full of dynamite-apt to blow up the whole spirit of Rotary fellowship...