Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harrison, though new to American films, has made an enviable record in Hitchcok's British ventures and the recent "Blithe Spirit." His portrayal of the King is fascinating. Alternating between rugged defense of His Divine Right and a genuine desire to westernize his backward land, the monarch enters a conflict of wits with the schoolmarm who cannot countenance some of the bizarre practices that are placed beyond "progress...
Said Byrnes with patient hope: "As war breeds war, so peace can be made to breed peace." But Byrnes summed up the spirit of the impending Peace of Paris when he said, speaking of the Italian colonial agreement: "The thing I like ... is that [it] does not require unanimity...
...last week the spirit of McRompers still marched on. At the United Nations Health Assembly meeting in New York delegates unanimously approved a psychological attack on the world's ills through "mental armament." Children, said Canada's Deputy Health Minister George Brock Chisholm, must be taught to live harmoniously together or mankind will follow the dinosaur into oblivion...
...Atlantic Monthly in 1882, was considered so "risque" and "low" that the author was never again allowed to sully the pages of the Atlantic. In 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles ran serially in Harper's Bazar (then a different magazine, both in spelling and in spirit, from what it is now), and this too proved shocking to what J. Henry Harper described as "a number of anxious mothers." But Tess, quite apart from its notoriety, was a success. It established Hardy's transatlantic reputation...
This Summer's work is just to get material for the next competition in the spring and even though there is no immediate objective, Haines proclaims that the men's spirit is "fine...