Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were, moreover, aggravating circumstances. "Lieutenant Szipzr," said the court, "impaired the reputation of the country's first house of detention by being responsible for the bad spirit which prevailed in the prison for a certain period." As usual, the Communists were talking upside down: actually, the "bad spirit" was an excess of high spirits...
...better put their own house in order. Hawley had been talking to people all over the country, he said, and "I've come to the conclusion, with a great deal of regret, that the confidence of some of our people has been shaken in the unselfishness and spirit of public service in the medical profession...
...such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited, etc.), and modern new stations as well. Now he is pondering the biggest problem of all: finding a better and more profitable way to handle all the road's freight...
...much to Frend's credit that John Mills, who plays Scott, and Derck Bond, Reginald Beckwith and Harold Warrender, as other members of the expedition, play their parts as men who can take defeat quietly and then move on to the next task at hand. Mills, in the same spirit, plays Scott with great honesty and authenticity...
...couple of Dartmouth wags had a bright idea Friday. They were going to kidnap one Jawaharlal Nehru while he was visiting Harvard, and spirit him off to a suburban hideaway. Then, on Saturday, they planned to introduce him to an admiring Stadium throng as Prime Minister of the (Dartmouth) Indians...