Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pyinmana Agricultural School in Burma. "A warm Christian spirit permeates all activities...
...work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson: "It is not unnatural for the boys of a country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such a spirit to be fanned up artificially by the engines of a sensational Press, by the enterprising photographers who record all the horrid details of crime. . . ." Ferdinand Pecora, like most militant prosecutors, wanted to cut constitutional corners, put crooks expeditiously in jail by denying them immunity from selfincrimination, by convicting them...
Endeavoring to stand firm, "Uncle Arthur" proposed that the do-nothing Con ference of which he is President be protracted without end. Accepting his prize of $41,595 in the broadest spirit, he concluded: "If we contemplate as our ultimate end a League controlling the world's economic life and its armed forces, then we must say frankly that our ultimate ideal is the creation of nothing less than a World Commonwealth...
With the star of tolerance rising over the Yard, and the spirit of peace and understanding permeating to the humblest House, there is need of Wise Men to speak a carefully considered word or two. Even greater will be the need on Saturday morning, as professors eye the serried ranks before them. May there then be some to realize that because a man takes advantage of a privilege it is no indication he is unworthy of it. Just as in the arts, where what is said is not so important as the spirit in which it is said...
...nakedness in Thaïs, to watch her lascivious dancing in Salome. But Mary Garden drew as many operagoers with the emotion in her voice as she did with the perfection of her body. Even her most rabid critics granted her genius for the way she captured the fragile, tenuous spirit of Debussy's Mélisande...