Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inaugurated with the beginning of the House system the plan of having House dinners has quickly become traditional, or perhaps habitual, with all the Houses. These dinners vary in form and spirit from House to House but there are certain aspects of these which need immediate attention and reform...
...have changed the history of the world in 1914, as he stood--threatening at the gates of Paris. The fact is that he did not and through his failure the war came to a long, frightfully wasting deadlock. Today the world must guard against the possible resurge of that spirit which the name of Von Kluck connotes--that spirit which drove Prussia on in 1914, under frenzied leaders and wild ambitions, till her armies were sweeping East and West across Europe like huge machines, and general staffs and supreme commands directed the human slaughter from safe posts in the rear...
Into this scene the lanky, linen-suited figure of Will Rogers, as Judge Priest, blends admirably well. The good judge dispenses juleps as well as justice, and tempers the letter with the spirit of the law. But at length his benevolent reign is threatened by the presence of a political rival in the person of a blustering, sycophantic old ex-senator. Moreover, the family of young Rome, (Tom Brown) objects to his affection for the town school teacher, (Anita Louise) who, though pretty, is not of quality folks. Anita Louise, in this role, reminds one of magnolia blossoms...
When Franklin Roosevelt became President of the U. S. last year, Grace Goodhue Coolidge said: "We have cast aside political and sectional interest in a spirit of cooperation with our President and believe this spirit emanates from the whole people." Until last week that was the only political pronouncement the grey-eyed, gracious widow of Calvin Coolidge had made since his death. Last week before 1,500 applauding Massachusetts Republicans she appeared at Heaton Hall in swank Stockbridge to eulogize and hearten her State's Republican candidates, to predict for them a sweeping victory in next month...
...lives on a farm in New Hope, Pa., last year sent his two young daughters to a one-room rural school. That he yearns toward the new frontier of social equality Professor Counts ascribes partly to the fact that he was born in Kansas, when the old frontier spirit was still strong. Since then he has studied Soviet Russia at first hand, discussed it in many a book and article. But he opposes "regimentation." would not have the Soviet system transferred wholesale...