Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imitation of Victorian style: "If the girl anticipated marriage by granting him what he asked, Palmer at once cooled towards her, as too giddy to be his wife; if on the other hand, she refused, he thought her cold, and abandoned the case." The book is lively, full of spirit and incidental information--after the reference to the training of doctors, for example, one wonders how anybody at all survived adolescence...
...second major award of the evening was the Pat McLaughlin Trophy for freshmen, which went to Patrick R. Liles '60 of Massachusetts Hall and Memphis, Tenn., for his spirit, teamwork, and general aid to the freshman squad. Liles has won the broad jump and the 100 and 200 sprints three times, and finished the year with 68 5/6 points as high scorer on the freshman team...
...Wendell the Harvard steward, moved by the flowing eloquence,, burbled, "We were met in the handsomest spirit and lost fairly on our merits and demerits...
...Warner Bros., producer of The Spirit of St. Louis (TIME, March 4), had reason to wonder if the epic's hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, is still a hero in his own home town. After big hoopla in Little Falls, Minn. (pop. 6,717), Spirit, showing in two local theaters, grossed a miserable $7.50 in one house on the second night of its run. Warner Bros.' take for the evening...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh; Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...