Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around the world in coal mines, had been fired on for distributing handbills in Pennsylvania. In a thoroughly rebellious spirit such delegates as these introduced hundreds of resolutions favoring President Lewis' stand for industrial unionism, voted approval of a radio campaign to spread their leader's views, authorized their executive board to withhold U. M. W.'s $48,000 annual...
...calling themselves liberal who regard any suggestion of economy as reactionary. They seem to think willingness to throw other people's money around without any consideration of value received is a peculiar sign of a pure heart. We must subordinate material rewards and enthrone the things of the spirit. "I am for Landon," declared William Allen White. "As a young man he followed my banner and as an old man I am going to follow his." "Stirring!" cried Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir. "An important contribution to American history!" exclaimed Ogden Mills. "HE BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!" screamed...
...sonnet: This man was King in England's direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone, His courage was a flag men rallied on; His steadfast spirit shewed him King indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful...
Senior de Madariaga, first ambassador of the Republic of Spain to the United States and former newspaper man in London, will speak on the "Spirit of Europe" in the New Lecture Hall at 8' o'clock this evening...
...second, a representation of "Melancholia", the conflict is in almost complete equilibrium. A confusion of astrological allusions in the background indicates the mediaeval influence while the contemplative features of Melancholia herself, obviously grappling with some intellectual problem, is definitely Renaissance in spirit...