Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recession would be the worst possible 1938 platform. Major administrative hold on both Houses for the past five years has been the flood of Federal spending. With the President set on checking expenditures and balancing the budget, there was that much more reason for Congress to feel a new spirit of independence. This was exactly what, in the first days of the Special Session, Congress most notably displayed in Washington last week...
...Return of Maxim (Lenfilm). Maxim (Boris Chirkov) personifies the spirit of the Russian revolution. Part I (The Youth of Maxim) introduced him as an oppressed worker in Tsarist Russia (TIME, April 29, 1935). His Return shows him as a wary revolutionist two years later...
...Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (27 churches, 300 members) believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God; that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone today is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching or missionary work...
...Puritans are parched. They read in the papers that the team is good, for work and sustained drive have produced a deceptive and polished attack that will "go" in the absence of a star. That Yale is a great team cannot be denied, but the College feels that if spirit and resolution count, Harvard, too, this afternoon will be a great team. Everyone wishes the players good luck...
Even the President's message to the special session was indicative of the new attitude of the Administration. Characterized by a Washington correspondent as "the mildest message of his career," the document breathed a conciliatory spirit, and went to the unprecedented length of proposing tax revision,--albeit somewhat vaguely,--and again mentioned budget-balancing. Only once did the President stoop to demagoguery, when in referring to his old whipping post, the Supreme Court, he expressed the hope that the Court will not "again deny to farmers the protection which it now accords to others...