Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church of Rome has paid the industry since the Legion of Decency campaign began last year. Wrote Jesuit Gerard B. Donnelly: "I hold no brief for Hollywood but somebody ought to insist that the producers have lived up to their promises with admirable fidelity. . . . They have shown a splendid spirit of co-operation with the official leaders of the Legion of Decency...
...Earle V. Pierce preaches just around the corner from me. He's the sensitive spirit who in your July 15 issue deplores your "stench of debasing animalism" and wistfully looks forward to the day when the postman will no longer force him to accept TIME. Seeing his letter today (Sunday), and remembering his pretty gift for snappy sermon titles, I was moved to note tonight's offering on his billboard. Well, he will particularize "A Kiss That Didn't Count." That should catch many a hesitant eye tempted to rove among the bathing beauties of nearby Lake...
...goes to King Vittorio Emanuele III to get his decrees perfunctorily signed, Pierre Laval & Cabinet then called at the ornate Elysee Palace of sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. It took M. le President until 2:30 a. m. to sign the 28 decrees. They were emphatically in the Mussolini spirit, diametrically opposed to the Roosevelt...
Money, Old & New. Most conspicuous result of Chairman Kennedy's prime policy of blending the high spirit of reform with the realism of the market place was his famed new registration form for old-line companies. After consultation with practicing lawyers and accountants, it was promulgated last winter, promptly released a flood of corporate financing that is still rising (TIME, March 13). Commenting on this simplified form, Accounting Review declared: "The SEC has in one month set effective and, on the whole, reasonable standards for the [accounting] profession which years of futile committee work within professional societies have...
...seven years Mrs. Fury struggled desperately to keep her son Peter in college, where he was studying for the priesthood. A big. middle-aged Irish woman, proud, foolish, intense, domineering, Mrs. Fury had known poverty all her life, hut had never lost her spirit, controlled her magnificent temper, or grown resigned to the ways and morals of the squalid district of the English seaport where she lived. She had met her husband. Dennis, when she jumped from an excursion steamer to save a child, had been saved in turn by him. Strict and unforgiving, she had closed the door...