Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern world of infinitely greater importance than anything offered by D. H. Lawrence, and I believe that in this book he has made his message more easily intelligible than in his previous novels or even in his beautiful poems." Stuart's message: that man's spirit is higher than the forces of Nature, is and should be opposed to them. Try the Sky is narrated, in Hemingwayesque style, by a young Irish horse-trainer, temporarily at a loose end in Vienna and enjoying a mild flirtation with the beauteous and straight-thinking Carlotta. Up the Danube wheezes...
...this battle, the Government will be overwhelmed with irretrievable disaster. * * * On the eve of this decisive battle Franklin D. Roosevelt is the Nation's Commander in Chief. * * * His order is not to watch and wait; it is not to retreat; his thunderous, thrilling command is 'Forward, march.'" In the spirit of those words the Congress and the President worked shoulder to shoulder. Perhaps it would be too much to say now that the battle is already won. But undeniably the sunshine is breaking through the clouds. The unprecedented legislation enacted by the last Congress administration of which...
...much as his ardour and a fine healthy contempt for geographical distribution blanks, salmon-colored cards which the officials call pink, and courses which may or may not give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling in some old pasture, climbing a hill, or floating down some tree-lined river in a canoe. Learning is sensitive and must be wood in quiet places, not commardeered by signing one's name six times...
What the world is needing is the spirit of love and of goodwill. It is hoped that the letters will finally breathe this more rational spirit...
Custody When blonde beauteous Katharine Winterbotham Buchanan, 49, married an Indian Oxonian from Madras named Kumar Jehan Seesodia-Warliker last May, Chicago society, startled, warmly debated the race issue. But the union outraged the bride's divorced husband, Thompson Buchanan, who had himself meantime displayed an adventurous spirit by marrying Authoress Joan (Cradle of the Deep) Lowell. He marched into a Kentucky court, asked and got custody of his 9-year-old son and namesake on the ground that Seesodia-Warliker, no Caucasian, was unfit to keep...