Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hell with you and your money!" is what St. Peter said to Simon the magician when he offered to pay the Apostles for the gift of conferring the Holy Spirit. This, at least, is the rendering that a new translation of the New Testament gives to the words the King James version translates as "Thy Money perish with thee" (Acts 8:20). See RELIGION, Colloquial Scripture...
...Mulroy, Spirit Dealer of Castlebar town-Six yards of red stuff for to make me a gown
...painters used their year abroad to feast their eyes, rather than to pick up the mannerisms of a foreign school. They soaked in "the golden glow of Rome," tingled to the spirit of Paris that "sped up the spin of idea and image." James Harvey in Egypt quarried into Coptic and Islamic art, felt that "through these art forms one sees the landscape of the Near East." Daniel Dickerson painted dhoti-clad Indians in a Rajasthan marketplace, tired porters in a Bangalore railway station...
...agreed that the purpose of a world's fair is to give a still picture of the turning world, then we can discount criticisms that the Fair lacked a unified theme, that there was a spirit of Cold War and not one of cooperation, and even that hot dogs were too expensive. Diversity, Cold War, and inflationary prices typify this year; and if these were evident at the Expo, it is not a short-coming. They merely added their bit in staging the drama, "World...
Despite numerous exhortations on the part of L.L. and the disk-jockeys, Lester's music did not seem to move the populace to a spirit of dancing. Indeed, there were probably no more than ten people dancing in the entire square, two of which Vag noticed rocking to a medium-pace Lanin fox-trot. After this set was completed, followed again by a deafening silence, a long line of state and local celebrities filed onto the bandstand to say a few ungrammatical sentences to the assembly. Most nobable among them was perhaps Mayor Phil Des-Rosiers who welcomed...