Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atop Winnipeg's limestone Legislative Building stands a statue of a naked boy with a sheaf of wheat under one arm. Manitobans dub him the "Spirit of Enterprise' see something symbolic in the fact that he faces north. Last week every Manitoban looked northward...
...that's wot it is. ... Trouble is everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing, but some of the old drink-it-up spirit was gone. People generally stayed as sober as their austerity clothes...
...call upon the Roman Catholic Church to be a church and not to attempt to be a state and a church. We shall bring practices to light that we believe constitute a threat to religious freedom. We shall speak firmly but in brotherly spirit...
...General Staff officers were working under a terrific pressure in the face of global war which they felt was probably imminent. Yet they were surrounded, outside their offices and almost throughout the country, by a spirit of isolationism and disbelief in danger which now seems incredible...
Antioch's actress is Cynthia Mamuta, who had "a magnetic beauty which could attract, creating intense desire; but could not hold, for within that magnificent body lurked a spirit easily stirred, which sometimes repelled one." Together with her handsome scriptwriter, Marcus Macer, she was sent by the Emperor Trajan to Antioch to satirize the growing sect of Christians out of existence. After 263 pages of intrigue, violence and lust, the story erupts in a holocaust of earthquake and conversion. The earth literally swallows up Marcus, while Cynthia does a quick change from a lubricous actress to a contrite Christian...