Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, comment in Chinese prints upon cinema stars is earthy, realistic. One could read in Shanghai last week that Butterfly Wu had been chaffed by her public with such good-humored cries as "You're getting too fat! Marshal Chang wouldn't have you now!" Replying with spirit. Miss Wu chaffed back: "I'm not too fat. Have a look! I'll go on making pictures for at least two more years." In China such a job as Butterfly Wu's is not soft. If she is playing a distraught mother grieving when her child...
...Sigma Kappa 27, Warren Lewis, U. of C. 27. All three have remained with the Brigadiers through then smart career. Now Horace Herdit and the Brigadiers are heard over CBS every Thursday night for a half hour, and they still have plenty of dipper college spirit...
Since the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment McKesson & Robbins, Inc. has been engaged in the distribution of wines and liquors on a nationwide scale. Since its earliest connection with this business, the policy of the Company has been to comply strictly with the spirit as well as the letter of every regulatory and taxing measure. In accordance with this policy, as soon as it became apparent to the executive officials of the company that there were irregularities in the collection of Colorado State liquor taxes, the Company communicated with the Governor of Colorado placing in his hands...
...fighting spirit of peace lovers is in for still more rousing during the coming session. The Senate Munitions Investigation Committee planned to reopen hearings, summon J. P. Morgan & friends, try to prove that the bankers drove the U. S. into the last war, try to dig up enough headline scandals to win committee members headline credit with headline-reading voters...
Above all, Haile Selassie has created a general, warm and blind sympathy for uncivilized Ethiopia throughout civilized Christendom. In the wake of the world's grandiose Depression, with millions of white men uncertain as to the benefits of civilization, 1935 produced a peculiar Spirit of the Year in which it was felt to be a crying shame that the Machine Age seemed about to intrude upon Africa's last free, unscathed and simple people. They were ipso facto Noble Savages, and the noblest Ethiopian of them all naturally emerged as Man of the Year...