Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Both the Attorney-General and the Cambridge Bar Association, in a most helpful spirit, have signified that they have not the least intention of interfering with the Bureau on the basis of the statute. But it is not thought that the operations of the Bureau might not be interfered with. The Law School cannot think of operating any institution or carrying on any activity the legality of which is open to doubt...
...Charlie Grant, with Vandy Lee and Vio Whitlock, is having a great time at Dartmouth throwing Sophomores into fountains and turning fire hoses into their letter slots to flood their rooms. He thinks Dartmouth has an amazing amount of school spirit and is altogether a swell college . . . ." --St. Albana News
...sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others-all out of one of the most remarkable memories and most capacious files in existence...
...neckties. Asked why representatives of a Bridgeport, Conn. concern should celebrate Saint Patrick's Day-and prematurely, at that-salesmen replied that green was the color of safety, that green traffic lights meant go ahead, that green was American Chain Co.'s official hue. In the same spirit, girls who worked for American Chain were given imitation green jade bracelets. So successful was the color idea that the June 1935 issue of Industrial Power complimented American Chain by coming out in a green cover and various employes of Business Week copied the green neckwear of American Chain salesmen...
...modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow essays, in metaphysical verse that seems closer in spirit to the work of T. S. Eliot than to the hillbilly ballads of their native region. Readers who assume that these intellectuals speak for all Tennessee are in danger of missing some of the most picturesque writing in current U. S. letters. Opposed to them is a younger...