Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proper Spirit. In Battle Creek, Mich., Robert F. Ort, who admitted setting twelve fires in the Moose Lodge clubhouse, told police that putting them out helped develop "comradeship" among the members...
...Spirit of Bryn Mawr. Juliana is far more sociable than her formidable mother. "Wilhelmina never starts a conversation," say friends, "and Juliana never finishes...
...Bryn Mawr alumna would buy tickets for a lecture on economics by the late John Maynard Keynes and would go in much the same spirit as Juliana went to hear Churchill. Just as the Bryn Mawr alumna would bring her husband, so Juliana brought Bernhard. He sat there looking as if he would rather be at a country club, but had been almost reconciled to the educational occasion...
Well before last week's game, Chappuis had been primed on pro football by the Dodgers' Left Halfback Hunchy Hoernschemeyer and veteran Fullback Mickey Cornier. Said Mickey, who is 29 and balding: "There's spirit in pro football, but it's cold spirit. You produce, or you don't get your pay." At Ebbets Field, under the arc lights, the band played Michigan as the 900-man Michigan Club of New York gave Bob Chappuis a scroll wishing him "the best of luck." But Chappuis, the top Dodger name, saw little action: he had missed...
...mutually blighting years of a master & slave relationship. The one: the white South's insistence upon segregation in the mass . .. [It] is as united as 30 million people can be in its insistence on segregation . . . But [its] evolution is being immeasurably slowed down by the ferocity, the punitive spirit and the lack of balanced approach which Ray Sprigle's articles in great part exemplify . . . How about giving some recognition to the good things that are happening in the South...