Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is clearly a violation of the spirit of the plan. The courts were donated along with the Houses, and were designed to be an integral part of each unit. That the University should charge for the use of these courts is as unjust as if it were to charge for the use of the House libraries or common rooms. The policy is justified upon the grounds that fees are levied upon the University courts and that uniformity must be maintained. Since the upkeep of the courts involves no considerable expense and is accomplished by the regular janitorial staffs, this...
SINCLAIR LEWIS has again taken a brief vacation from satirizing the various American types, which he pilloried so unmercifully in "Main Street," "Arrowsmith," and "Rabbitt" and written another amiable, un-irritative novel, comparable in spirit to "Mantrap...
Authoress Mayo was fond of the A. E. F., still is. "In eight months spent Overseas in the company of our private soldiers, not once did I hear from an American doughboy a phrase coarse in spirit, or an oath." She thinks the boys came home bursting with patriotism, eager to continue serving their country. Since understanding, idealistic leadership was lacking, the returned crusaders disintegrated into citizens no better than stay-at-homes. Distressed that the A. E. F. should have degenerated into the American Legion and the Bonus Army, Authoress Mayo sought the answer in the pension system, investigated...
...defeat of the white races, and the Peace of 1918 . . . the first great triumph of the coloured world," he holds out a small hope, no bigger than Hitler's hand, for the salvation of Western civilization. "There remains as a formative power only the warlike, 'Prussian' spirit-everywhere and not in Germany alone. . . . He whose sword compels victory here will be lord of the world. The dice are there ready for this stupendous game. Who dares to throw them...
Smug Cambridge barbarians repairing to the Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...