Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...element would thus be introduced in the House dining halls. Undoubtedly the first reaction of a House member on entering his dining room and seeing a large table filled with the members of other Houses does not tend toward making him become more House-conscious, nor is the House spirit of men at training tables in this situation necessarily increased. Moreover, difficulties and dissension will undoubtedly arise in various quarters over the choice of Houses as sites of the training tables...
Said Mr. Thiehoff: "We signed in a spirit of compromise and in the face of immediate necessity. I'm sore but satisfied...
...Murray during his campaigns and during his present administration. When the floggers of Correspondent William Stephens learned of their expulsion they went to Governor Murray for a late night conference. They agreed to disband the Deep Dark Mystery Club. Next day Governor Murray reinstated them, praised their "nobleness of spirit and good citizenship," added that he would pardon them even if they were criminally prosecuted...
Unlike his patron's wife, Roxy, onetime Marine, is no champion of L'Art Moderne. Last month he and ancient Actor DeWolf Hopper made a puzzled inspection tour of the theatre. They stopped before a Herculean, brushed-aluminum nude figure by William Zorach entitled The Spirit of the Dance...
Accompanying The Spirit of the Dance to the cellar went Gwen Lux's Eve, while Manhattan's art world ranted, tore its hair. Said Roxy: "Mrs. Rockefeller may like them. Mr. Rockefeller may like them. . . . But I don't like them. I think they're ugly. Take them away...