Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...analogy, however, cannot be carried too far: Conant is a man who has to a large extent risen from the ranks, and who is not a member of that aristocracy represented by the Lowell-Eliot binary. The choice of such a man is thoroughly in accord with policies and spirit of the University, which has selected its presidents heretofore with such a successful eye for merit...
...Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal as the Tsarina of Russia. Conductor Walter Damrosch, who likes to dress up, was impressively pontifical as the Abbe Franz Liszt. Jascha Heifetz was Johann Strauss, conducting the orchestra with his violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel did her old Jenny Lind act, she sang off pitch...
...advances in education since then, and even the superiority in most respects of the modern college, he chooses to direct attention to the precious something which has dropped out of college life in the transition from '83 to '33. He would like to recapture "something of the old monastic spirit of college life, something of its isolation, something of its intimacy...
...wider development and more frequent manifestation on both sides of the Atlantic of the spirit that prompted this thoughtful and graceful gesture would accomplish more toward peace and goodwill than many Leagues and Conferences...
...some of his blithe college friends, proceeded to run up the old rag's circulation-at wanton initial expense- by an amazing application of the Pulitzer method. (He had brought home bound copies of the World.) "The Monarch of the Dailies," he called his sheet, and the spirit of the office was carnival. "There is no substitute for circulation" and "What we want to arouse is the 'Gee Whiz!' emotion" were the watchwords. Lots to drink (though not for Hearst; he was and is a sipper of fine wines), lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst...