Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the campaign there has seemed to be a controlling spirit of courtesy in all the newspapers of the country, insofar as I could see them, to refrain from any reference to Governor Roosevelt's lameness, and the word which you have used-"hobbled"-will give pain to Governor Roosevelt and all his friends. I cannot help feeling sorry to read a news statement in this form...
...socially minded General' I hear some of you saying with a doubtful or even scornful shrug. Yes, indeed, there has never been anything more social than the old army with compulsory service, where the poor and the rich, the officer and the rank & file, stood together and showed the spirit of comradeship in the miraculous deeds of the World...
...Edith Rockefeller McCormick who always sat majestically in Box No. 5. but many of the other old boxholders were in their regular places, rhapsodizing over the acoustics which seemed better than ever to Chicago's ears after three years in the Insull House. In the Insull House the spirit of old-fashioned friendliness never got a foothold but it enveloped last week's concert so thoroughly that during intermission hopeful talk of more Auditorium opera blended with sentimental reminiscences. It is an open secret that if Chicago can raise sufficient guarantee, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will visit...
...insure the election of a number of candidates, specified on a typewritten "ticket" which was circulated, voted for them and for them only. The Permanent Class Committee total was 117 votes shy. The stratagem of voting for only a few chosen candidates, is distinctly contrary to the spirit of the elections; it is not contrary to the present regular ions, for the reason that there are name. The remedy here is clear; the Student Council should vote a regulation prescribing that voters must either refrain from balloting for a committee, or must ballot for the full membership...
...spirit of the Ku Klux Klan is still rife in the West. Some few weeks ago, fourteen students of the University of Oklahoma administered a flogging in a student editor for having written an article "reflecting upon the traditions of the school which they were sworn to uphold." Accoutered in black hoods, they entered the editor's room at midnight, carried him off three miles into the country in his pajamas, with the thermometer standing at seventeen below, gave him ten lashes with a three quarters inch rope, and let him walk home. For ten days, the University officials investigated...