Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst complains that his malady of shingles has not a high-sounding name (TIME, May 30, p. 40). May I suggest "Herpes Zoster" ... as a synonym to spirit, if not to body...
Declaring that his own New Life Movement ("when pushed, it moves; when not pushed, it stands still") has need of a new spirit, Generalissimo Chiang concluded...
...spirit of Jesus is constructive, sacrificial, holy, true, peaceable, forward-looking, full of eager striving; and it is revolutionary throughout. In this critical time for our nation, there comes the holy Eastertide, which is also a testimony to 'deathlessness of spirit.' My fellow countrymen, let us cherish the idea of a 'new- birth'; let us maintain the resolution of 'sacrifice.' Let us hold Jesus as the goal for human living; let us keep the mind of Jesus as our mind, the life of Jesus as our life. Let us bravely go with...
...going to considerable lengths for a gag. Not long ago its headliner Baritone Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, observed, after a bazooka solo by Bob Burns, that the rendition had been "as dirty as the inside of a Russian horse doctor's valise." In somewhat the same free-style spirit, last week Kraft Announcer Ken Carpenter ad libbed at the end of the program during which Mr. Crosby had played Beautiful Ohio on a saw, that "Cuddle Up a Little Closer is from The Three Twins and Beautiful Ohio from hunger...
...duel. Result of the duel is Miss Rainer's best burst of blubbering since the one which got her her first Oscar in The Great Ziegfeld. Overdressed and antiquated, The Toy Wife redeems some of its defects by a conclusion which, to cinemaddicts who are infected by the spirit of the story, can be recommended as one of the saddest of the year, and by a gallery of miniature performances by little-known colored actors who, though they may win no Academy prizes, will have eminently earned them...