Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even as Haile Selassie chatted in French with his guests, his doom as an Emperor seemed in course of being sealed by Orator Anthony Eden, who told his constituents that "The League finds its authority weakened" and that Geneva must now act "in the spirit of candid realism." Far from suggesting any anti-Italian or pro-Ethiopian action of a virile nature. Orator Eden announced for the British Government this unpretentious objective: "We must at this time maintain the League of Nations in existence." In quarters close to Haile Selassie it was said that he was being pressed to quit...
...what made me walk on the golf course just at that moment." The man in charge of the camp canteen, one James Mariano who claimed he had been a "drunk, pick pocket and strong-arm man," told an Assembly audience that "the canteen is directed by the Holy Spirit. We have no cashier. You simply go in and take what you want and pay for it and be God-guided all the time you are there." Said Camp Cook Francis Flannagan: "We have our quiet times in the morning so that through guidance we may make our menus...
Like Kipling's Tomlinson, turned back at Heaven's portals and Hell gate because he was "neither spirit nor spirk," John Middleton Murry floats in a half-world of his own. Most derided, most vilified man of letters in contemporary England, his respectable reputation as a critic has been overshadowed by his notoriety as a candid friend. His enemies cannot forgive him for having been the husband-of the late Katherine Mansfield, the intimate friend of the late D. H. Lawrence, and making literary capital out of both relationships. Much of his recent writing they have found unpleasantly...
...Austria," cried he, "was in the army camp and the new Austria must be there too. Rejoice in the revival of the soldierly spirit...
...lack of leadership. No one has stepped forward to take on his shoulders the flaming mantle of the great Jouet Shouse. In this crying wilderness no prophet has arisen to lead the children to the promised land with the fervour of the noble Alfred Emmanuel, or the disinterested spirit of self-sacrifice and public duty exemplified by the trible of DuPont...