Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quotations from his law of 1929, which guarantees religious freedom in Italy, and accompanying them a special statement signed by Benito Mussolini: "I know that the Waldenses are Italians by race and of heart, and am an admirer of their history; for their endurance, for their sacrifices, for the spirit of idealism that they have demonstrated...
...Club, the Siamese Cat Society of America, and the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...
...Spirit of Modern Architecture" was the subject of a talk by Joseph Hudnut, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, given last night over short-wave radio station WIXAL...
...civil population [in Leftist Spain] now is desperate," declared Socialist Baron. "Food supplies have been reduced to severe siege rations. Under the present regime, democratic forces have lost their spirit and this, coupled with severe privation, has weakened their resistance...
Fundamental mistake of Western man. says Lin Yutang. is his attempt to find out where the spirit begins and the flesh leaves off. Having abandoned a missionary's career when he saw this fallacy, Author Lin now regards any attempt to separate the two as "confusing, unintelligible and untrue." "Happiness for me," he says, "is largely a matter of digestion. ... I would prefer pork to poetry, and would waive a piece of philosophy for a piece of filet...