Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angriff, personal organ of ecstatic Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels. last week found a new villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit and would emigrate in the flesh for good business. And if occasionally they do report something that is correct, that something is known to the competent political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs...
...really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense practicality and the common sense of poor Richard: what knew he of that inner spirit which lifts man and his works into the realm of the sublime...
From these two great and lovable men springs our essential trouble. Between them they divided America in such a way that the honest labor of man could never be fused with his inner spirit, and until such fusion comes we must await the years of our own majority. Nor is Mr. Brooks without proof. What have Longfellow, with his untried sentiments, Bryant with his manufactured moralities, Emerson with his solitary self reliance got to do with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne...
...Which is the most English, Disraeli or Mosley, who dresses up as a continental dancing master, who masquerades as Mussolini with his dirty shirts-Disraeli or the man who had to go to Italy for a name for his organization and to Germany for his bullying spirit? "Some people say 'Leave Mosley alone; he will never become castor oil king of England.'* Mosley wants to turn England into a Communist camp. He breathes Bolshevism at every step...
Until the present moment, however, the spirit offensive-defensive alliances between great powers, so vexing to pre-war Europe, has not arisen to trouble the waters. Now, apparently credible reports indicate that the former charming friendship between France and Russia is being restored. Amusingly enough, the moves in the game are strikingly like those from 1890 onward. First, the generals discuss military problems and an "understanding" is reached. Either concurrently or shortly afterward, this is supplemented by a political agreement. As in 1894, these preliminaries will now probably be completed by a treaty of military assistance. If France succeeds...