Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow...
This year's Bonus demonstration did not compare in size or spirit with last year's. Bonus sentiment in Congress was at low ebb. The Senate had lately rejected prepayment by a vote of 60-to-28. In the House only 26 members out of the necessary 145 could be found to sign a petition to call up such a measure. President Roosevelt's broad relief program detracted from popular support of a special class demand...
...flames, the new shall be fashioned from the flame in our hearts. ... As you had the right to destroy the books, you had the duty to support the government. The fire signals to the entire world that the November revolutionaries have sunk to earth and a new spirit has arisen...
...mean a serious calamity for India. I search in vain in his latest letter for either a substantiation of his original proposition or a reasoned refutation of my rejoinder. Instead he has fully utilized the column to indulge in unrestrained vituperations against Gandhi and his methods, the true spirit of a new convert to a creed...
...sound but it is used deliberately with respect to the action taken by the U. S." Bumbled the Tory Morning Post: "It would be difficult to find a parallel for so unblushing and callous a breach of contract. ... It is almost unthinkable that Washington would repudiate the letter and spirit of the gold contracts in these bonds." Mocked the Financial News: "Iowa and the farmers at large are in the legislative saddle and Roosevelt can but paddle along holding on to the tail." British editors broadly hinted that if the U. S. could default on its gold bonds, Britain could...