Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of the May Day spirit is the scientific dissection of that anigmatic animal, the parlor pink, with an explanation of how he happened to get into the parlor in the first place. "Publish of Perish" shouts forth from the Elliothousetope the atrocitties practiced upon the HArvard faculty in a bit of muckraking of which Upton Sinclair himself could be proud. Not even the short stories have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class...
...pleasant to see Harvard's conservative literary magazine throwing itself right into the May Day spirit, Capitalists will never go far wrong in rubbing elbows, or even editorial columns, with their radical neighbors. Mother Advocate whooping it up with the boys, sporting mud on her shoes, is far from being in an unbecoming role. Into the oars of Advocate editors, filled this morning with congratulations, it would not be out of place to whisper the classic phrase: "Dulce Est Puriculam...
...foreign program consisting not only of a policy of revenge but also of unlimited conquest of foreign territory and destruction of the independence of entire States -people who, having publicly announced such a program, far from repudiating it, continuously circulate it and bring up their country in this spirit...
...which he collected his spit). Her father was a butcher, a sensible sort of man; her immense mother had swum the English Channel at 19, had now relapsed into a mountainous and silent character. Velvet was not much to look at but she had her mother's spirit. And Velvet worshiped horses. All she had to ride was Miss Ada, the family's unpleasantly decrepit old pony. When a neighboring farmer's piebald gelding was raffled off because he kept jumping fences and running away, Velvet won him and acquired the start of her stable. And when...
...Foreign Minister, realistic as ever, prefers an alliance providing for instant mobilization of both French and Soviet armies in the event of provocative action on the part of Germany. The French government, however, faithful as ever to its patient at Geneva, has insisted mulishly that in the pact the spirit of the Covenant of the League of Nations be kept intact, and seems to have won its point...