Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supposedly, people improve a great deal with the coming of the Christmas spirit. All this proves is that people are pretty poor news the rest of the time. And a walk down the block to the shopping area where people thresh about buying tokens of good cheer shows that they're not very wonderful during this time of year either...
...days we will watch the little ones burning all the Christmas trees in the gutters. Perhaps it will snow, and the flakes will cover the stumps of the 40,000,000 trees sacrificed to the Yule spirit. But even before the affair is over, we're tired of the ding-donging bells and the Christmas seals, of the Ice Show and the happy, bustling people. Santa can't even get slugged without someone getting arrested. We'll probably go back to our room on Christmas Eve, put an Elvis Presley Christmas Carol on the hi-fi set, and play...
...last resort, Professor Friedrich has appealed to whatever passes for Christmas Spirit in a large and cold University to provide him with a new non-slipping, non-collapsible lectern. It is only fitting that he do so, for a lectern is something of a symbol in the academic community. Professor Demos has had to use an empty waste basket placed upside down upon a desk. Professors Harbage, Bate, and Demos have suffered passively with the two boxes and the tilted board technique...
...Magazine, like the fiction that sired it, lives in a world of football weekends and cocktail prty conversation. It has spirit, seriousness, and superficiality...
...Blended Spirit. In Launceston, Tasmania, after police caught Minister for Police Charles Aylett drinking in a bar after hours, he was fined $5 in spite of his contention that "Parliament makes laws to cover extreme cases, but Parliament always considers that the law will be administered with discretion...