Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social? Walter Rauschenbusch died of cancer in 1918 at the age of 56, broken in spirit by World War 1, rejected by many Americans because of his German background and his attempts to keep the U.S. from fighting. Later his Social Gospel became so powerful that it took U.S. Protestantism to opposite extremes: churches sometimes seemed to be turning into sanctified civic-betterment societies...
...deny, the Pope continued, that there is such a thing as fashion that is "shameless, which causes perturbation in ordered spirits and may be an incentive to evil." Such fashions are bad, however esthetic they may be. Man "quickly notices hidden shamelessness and seduction . . . Although creators of impudent fashions are skillful in contrabanding perversion by mixing it with esthetic elements which are honest in themselves, human sensuality is unfortunately even cleverer in discovering it and in being readily fascinated by it." And even though the cut be modest, the cloth "may be guilty of excessive luxury, which is an offense...
Brown's gallant spirit snapped. The left fullback chased behind McIntosh towards his own goal, and watched McIntosh score the winning goal past Brown's unprotected, unhappy goalie. Time ran out shortly...
...first of the plays, The Words Upon The Window-Pane, is far and away the best. Written in prose and naturalistic in form, the work reflects Yeats' lifelong preoccupation with spiritualism by restaging a seance in modern Dublin. The seance is disturbed by the intrusion of a "hostile spirit," who turns out to be Jonathan Swift. It is a wonderfully gripping work, with an atmosphere both eerie and convincing...
...Crimson backs were much improved from the previous matches this season, especially in tackling, but the greater size and spirit of the Tiger scrum meant that all too often Princeton could check an attack at the last moment...