Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silver. Since the Silver Legion regards not the white race but the Aryan race as God's chosen people, it stands closest in spirit, and reputedly in fact, to the real Nazis...
Purely as a matter of record and wholly in the spirit of the game, The Literary Digest guaranteed the American expenses of the Cambridge Rugby Team during its visit to the United States [TIME, April 16]. Marshall Field was a generous contributor in as much as he entertained the team and others at dinner. Fortunately there was no "angel" as the receipts from the games and the courtesy of the various hosts not only met the American expenses but paid the advances Cambridge made. In a word it was a successful sporting adventure...
...Disarmament Conference, to reassemble at Geneva May 29. The prospects of getting France and Germany to come to any sort of terms looked so remote that the President was doubtful whether it would be worthwhile to send Mr. Davis abroad to attend. Said Mr. Davis: "There must be a spirit of accommodation if they are going to get an agreement. It does not look terribly encouraging now. Sometimes you do not budge until you get a serious situation. I am hopeful Europe will find some way of solving this difficulty...
...choice will be made by the 106 members of the committee, one man and one woman representing each of the 48 states and five dependencies. Under normal conditions, national committees of both parties tend naturally to think of themselves in the spirit of a fraternity. In a way which, from a human standpoint, is rather fine, they sometimes base their preference for chairmen on old loyalties, long personal associations, long service, the spirit of promotion. In the present situation, two of those mentioned as available are men who have been members for more than twenty years...
...indication of the vitality of the drama at Harvard this production is much to be admired. And if we see in it certain reminders of other admirable works of art we need not allow ourselves to be prejudiced against the spirit of which it is the token...