Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale man, would not be stopped. He hired a lawyer, made Parent Herrick produce his sheltered daughter in court, announced that they would elope if he had to get a fire department tower truck backed up against the Herrick apartment, finally collaborated with the tabloid Daily News to spirit Eileen off and marry...
From Hong Kong, in 1930, Ho tried to organize a Viet Nam revolt, but failed, and hid under several new aliases while the affair blew over. During World War II, he turned up in Viet Nam as Ho Chin Minh ("Mr. Ho the Bright Spirit"), turned out the Japanese puppet ruler and organized an anti-French rebellion. Once in power, he decided that Communism could wait. Says Ho: "Almost 2,000 years ago, Jesus Christ said we should love our enemies. We are still far from that ideal. I do not know when Marx's ideal will be achieved...
...particularly lucrative offer from a certain quarter." Other Army stars (the brightest: Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis) have had "their summer furloughs marred by visitations and solicitations" at bull-market prices. Concluded the General: "The authorities at the Military Academy view with concern . . . the apparent decay in the amateur spirit of college athletics...
...Mexico's 20,000,000 Catholics and 180,000 Protestants. To the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, Luis María Martínez, the tragedy at Santiago Yeche deserved Christian condemnation. Said he: "The Catholic faith is defended and extended through prayer, instruction and good example. . . . The Christian spirit is the spirit of charity, and charity is sweet and prudent...
...when Manhattan teemed with murdering bootleggers, big spenders, lovable drunks and chorines with hearts of gold, one of Broadway's favorite mirrors of the times was Columnist Mark Hellinger. After nine years in Hollywood, Hellinger has somehow managed to retain the wide-eyed, gaudy spirit of the old days. The Killers, his first independent production for Universal, is packed with scenes, characters and dialogue straight out of Hellinger's Broadway...