Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Leonora Corbett, 38, glittering star of the British stage & screen constellation (Blithe Spirit, The Constant Nymph, Lady in Waiting): her first husband, John Francis Royal, 60, burly NBC vice president; after four years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...unable through diplomacy to put our weight behind realization of a coalition government, democratic in spirit and action, it would seem better for us and for China that we fold our tents and quietly depart...
Died. Antoinette Perry, 58, one of Broadway's few successful woman directors (Strictly Dishonorable, Harvey); of heart disease; in Manhattan. Tony Perry, ever the angel of tyro actors, was the wartime guiding spirit of the American Theatre Wing, left her heart at its seven Stage Door Canteens across the nation...
...president, said yesterday in a letter announcing the results of the referendum that "substitutions were not included on the ballots for fear of further complicating the choice, but the Food Committee feels that the vote was to go without the amount of food and that substitutions would violate the spirit of this decisions...
Scientific Sobriety. About 1800 the carnival spirit dwindled sharply, and the age of scientific sobriety began. An extension of the enema principle came in 1895 with the invention of colonic irrigation by Professor Ismar of Berlin-a controversial treatment which Historian Lieberman dismisses as very rarely necessary and "on the wane at the present time...