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Word: spirited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building (on which only $200,000 of $2,000,000 remained last week unpaid). In picking him to succeed frosty-headed A. (for Anson) Conger Goodyear, hard-working president since 1929, the Board of Trustees well pleased the person who was not only a founder but a moving spirit of the Museum: Nelson's publicity-hating mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. That the presidency of the Museum is no longer-if it ever was-merely a family, clique, or society function, the principal speakers of the evening made abundantly clear. Sample (Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking by radio from the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautiful Doings | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...ungrammatical grocer's clerk, Gregory Parent, recounted to Garland some queer doings of his late wife, Violet. Guided by the spirit of a dead Indian named Two Bear, Violet Parent for nine years had led gullible neighbors through cactus, poison oak and 3,000 miles of broiling California sunshine. Their reward was to find money in rusty cans and rotted pocketbooks, which the Parents kept. Also found were 1,500 crude lead crosses (Mrs. Parent's first husband was a metal worker). The Parents claimed that these crosses were Indian relics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirited | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Busy with his Forty Years of Psychic Research at the time he heard this, Author Garland discovered too late that Gregory Parent "had passed into the 'fourth dimension.' " But for pan royalties in the present book a medium attempted to con-tact the Parents in the spirit world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirited | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Best spirit conversation followed the discovery that two pieces of broken cross exactly fitted. "Fuller," said Garland, "you are the wonder of the Fourth Dimension! That ought to make you laugh." Said Spook Fuller: "It does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirited | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...professors and instructors signing the plea claim that Congress would act against the democratic spirit if it did not continue the writers' and artists' work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 210 Faculty Members Sign Names Upon Petition Keeping Federal Arts Projects | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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