Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neil McElroy became Cincinnati's No. 1 civic participant, belonging to everything from the Community Chest to the opera association (as well as the Rookwood Historical and Philosophical Society, a bigwig, poker-playing group). In 1950 McElroy's public spirit took him to a luncheon for the president of Columbia University, who needed $25,000 to help finance Columbia's American Assembly, a series of conferences on public issues. After Columbia's president explained the project, McElroy asked him to "wait around for a few moments while I nail this thing together." On the spot...
This was a blow to the hotel's creditors, mostly local businessmen. They appealed to the State Tax Commission to show the proper Las Vegas spirit and give the hotel one more chance to get even. From the sympathetic commission came approval of an unprecedented experiment: an eight-day trial to see if the Royal Nevada could separate enough cash from Christmas season gamblers by the end of the year to pay its bills...
...death of Thackeray's infant daughter Jane and the insanity of his young wife Isabella. The new volume shows the saddened giant in his prime-the famed, wealthy author of Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond; the doting father of two idolizing, teen-age daughters; the hero and leading spirit of all who detested the rambunctious literary supremacy of Charles Dickens. Author Ray's biography is less remarkable for its discussion of Thackeray as a novelist than for its description of Thackeray as a man-the best pen picture of the novelist that has been drawn...
Change in Spirit...
...differences between his visit to Germany in 1925 and his arrival as U.S. High Commissioner in 1953. Germany today is tragically divided, he said, but it is a geographical rather than an internal division, as it was in the days of the Weimar Republic. He pointed out the spirit of cooperation among men of differing cultures and ideas in modern Germany. "One can say today that the difficulties faced by the Weimar Republic have been surmounted," he stated...