Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital needs of national defense are not attainable. ... It is desirable for the people to abandon the selfish, individualistic economic sense, to awaken to moral principles and to hasten to establish an economy embodying the Empire's ideals [i. e., a military dictatorship]. The military . . . would cultivate the spirit of personal sacrifice in which the country's welfare alone counts, while ruling out extreme internationalism and individualism...
...sweep away the anarchy and "spiritlessness" of Chinese who "lack proper guidance for taking and giving," the Outline proposes ''a wild storm"; to give China the new "right spirit," it proposes "a gentle breeze...
...disgusted at the spirit in which international racing is conducted here. I would not have minded losing but I did not want to be beaten like this. I feel completely disillusioned by my treatment at the hands of the Race Committee. We came to the United States to try to make yachting a great sport..... It is a business-a great thriving business-and we in England . . . can never win the America's Cup until we make it a business, too." He said that he had flown a protest flag in the last race principally to gain a hearing...
...Author Maurice Samuel: "I think a good slogan for my novel might be, 'A Novel that Women Will Hate.' " Propaganda for masculine superiority, Beyond Woman is written with a passion that some readers will think proud, others despairing. Author Samuel's theme, that man's spirit is continually struggling against the earthward pull of woman's nature, will tread uncomfortably hard on many a U. S. husband's tender toe. If wives are so ill-advised as to read it, it may annoy them, but only temporarily...
...rule refer publicly to CRIMSON editors or other students by name as slovenly and illiterate, whatever their opinion. Their restraint in such matters is inherent in the code of equality and polite intercourse that has superseded the older pedagogical autocracy. If undergraduates appreciate this newer spirit of fraternity and informality there is an obligation to reciprocate. But perhaps they would find such a course dull and uninteresting. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...