Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME appreciates the spirit of Maybelline's Williams' letter. But thanks, if any. must go to TIME'S subscribers who pay $5 a year for precise newsreporting...
...Buddha of Mercy." The other was the spiritual ruler, the Panchen Lama, resident at Tashilunpo Monastery eight days distant by caravan, the 'Buddha of Boundless Light." The succession of the Panchen and Dalai Lamas was determined by the Tibetan hierarchy. Upon the death of either Lama his spirit immediately found residence in the body of some small Tibetan moppet, of high family or low. Omens and portents would indicate to priests and monks which child was to be the next Living Buddha. In preparation for taking office upon reaching his majority, the new Living B, Idha would be trained...
...Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian began new 'negotiations to get the Wright plane back in the U. S. He would let Orville Wright write his own label if only the Museum might have the ship. For mediator of the old quarrel Dr. Abbot proposed Colonel Lindbergh, whose Spirit of St. Louis hangs permanently at the Smithsonian...
...washing and cooking. ... He stayed out late mighty nigh every night and came in looking all whipped down. . . . When she asked him where he went he made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon he had to leave the church and go off in the woods to pray. ... He talked mighty sweet about how he hated to leave her home by herself and all like that, but his tongue fumbled so it could not talk sweet...
...gallows looking away from the hangman. The wardens eyed the minute hands of their watches. There was only one minute to go when an official pushed through the crowd waving a telegram from President Miklas forbidding the execution on the grounds that it was "contrary to the Christmas spirit...