Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot House was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the front of Eliot House. And the spirit of Lowell moved upon Eliot House...
...pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes, he explains a poem. But her personal development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that is almost caprice. The spirit of Gertrude Stein has been caught most surely in the plastic arts with which she has so deep an affinity; she comes to us most directly through the portrait of Picasso and the dominating clay of Jo Davidson...
...figures were approvingly cited last week by President Roosevelt when, introduced as "America's apostle of neighborliness," he mounted the pulpit of the Hyde Park Methodist Episcopal Church and spoke during a centenary celebration. Said he: "The churches are doing their share. The members have shown a splendid spirit...
Lily (5) was one of the first ladies in San Francisco to try the advantages of a peroxide bleach. Her husband objected, so as a woman of spirit she shaved her head and ordered a trunkful of wigs, red, green, blue, one to match each of her gowns. Her husband and father both died...
Other books: The Revolutionary Spirit in France and in America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times, Washington: Republican Aristocrat...