Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respects, a Fair Dealer's dream, e.g., burgeoning appropriations for agriculture, expenses for school construction, outlays for welfare projects. Old-fashioned Republicans criticized it as a Fair Deal budget, but the President left it up to the Democrat-controlled Congress to trim as it might. Entering into the spirit of the thing, House Democrats made an unprecedented proposal: a resolution formally asking the President to tell them where to do the cutting...
Fourth Day shows the molten sun and cooling moon pulling apart in the primary blue sky, while the first living things begin their incandescent dance of life. As for the dark cloud, Kovarsky suggests that it represents Lilith, the legendary predecessor of Eve, who has now become an evil spirit, roaming the desolate spaces...
...spark to this unenforced House spirit is provided by House master John H. Finley, Jr., who learns the names of all the incoming sophomores within a short time, attends many of the House athletic events, and serves as master of ceremonies at the annual House dinner held in March on the birthday of the late President Eliot...
...marvelous romp begins when dignified Joe Raposo strolls to the piano and then bounces, rumbles, and tickles his way through some very pleasant music. As soon as the curtain rises, however, the boys take over, their ebulient spirit chanelled into a properly farcical plot. Mrs. Leroy St. Clair of the 1920 Oyster Bay Set (those were the days and the people) is making the final arrangements for her blonde, blue-eyed, and fashionably flat daughter's coming out party. Daughter is none too happy about it all as she has a poor but noble lover. Widow St. Clair is, herself...
Thompson's Mass of the Holy Spirit will be given its first complete performance...