Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told us [Feb. 14] that Dry Guillotine was "heavy with unrelieved nightmare." I finally read it and now walk on air, feeling "What a piece of work is man!"-ish and convinced that among yeggmen, politicians, editors and college freshmen there may be-must be-something of the spirit that carried Rene Belbenoit to his goal...
Please go after that reviewer with your sharpest invective and "stab his spirit wide awake...
...passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps' B-17 bomber, ordered six. Its weight, too, would be just within the "Big Five" agreement-42,672 lb. When this order became known T. W. A.'s competitors howled that the "spirit" of the agreement had been broken...
READING THE SPIRIT-Richard Eberhart-Oxford University Press ($2.50). Wet-behind-the-ears poems of unusual intensity, sponsored by English Anthologist Michael Roberts (The Faber Book of Modern Verse). Poet Eberhart is a young Minnesotan who graduated from Dartmouth in 1926, bummed around the world to St. John's College, Cambridge, now teaches English at St. Mark's School. Author of at least one unforgettable poem (The Groundhog), Poet Eberhart is one of the rarest human types known-a genuine ham poet...
Letter or Spirit? Adolf Hitler could not last week accuse Kurt von Schuschnigg of failure to carry out the two Chancellors' agreement to the letter, accused him instead of violating the agreement's "spirit...