Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast. Withal she seemed sure and confident on the stage. Her strong rich voice was expressive in every phase, her gestures admirably restrained. Most critics led their readers to believe that her interpretation was practically perfect. But Madame Flagstad is not yet a titan, though she exhibited great spirit when she managed her own horse, sang bravely into his ear no matter how the beast twitched and scuffed...
...spirit of the memory of Christy Mathewson, that we both hold sacred . . . I pledge to you and to the people of New England that we shall keep the faith...
What it meant was the end of Babe Ruth's connection with the New York Yankees, for whom he has played since 1920, for whom he has probably earned $10,000,000. What he was pledging himself in the spirit of Christy Mathewson to do was to function as player, vice president and assistant manager of the Boston Braves, for a salary of $25,000 and a percentage of the profits...
...time passed a further objective appeared-to lead children into church membership. Today in the U. S., 21,038,526 persons attend Sunday School, under the guidance of 2,167,848 officers and teachers in 184,686 churches. Only 17 small denominations, such as the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists, do not run Sunday Schools...
...essence it is a U. S. voice. Author Wolfe's whole theme: "Why is it we have crossed the stormy seas so many times alone, lain in a thousand alien rooms at night hearing the sounds of time, dark time, and thought until heart, brain, flesh and spirit were sick and weary with the thought of it; 'Where shall I go now? What shall I do?'. . . We are so lost, so lonely, so forsaken in America: immense and savage skies bend over us, and we have no door...