Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel sure that you did not mean to be malignant or mendacious but have been simply and naturally misled, I am writing to you in a friendly spirit in the hope that you will see your way clear to make due corrections...
...Renowned for physical beauty, her larger claim was in her untrammeled spirit and soul. She might then, as now, if she desired, have become a great political leader or a champion of women's causes...
...indeed make war?like a mad bulldog-walrus-tiger all rolled into one! Strangely enough, his pessimistic worldly philosophy caused him to deny explicitly on one occasion that God inspired the almost religious Crusade which he made out of the War. He gave the credit to the Spirit of France: "Ce n'est pas Dieu, c'est la France qui le veut...
...Alfred Henschke, a German author still in his early 30's. He has spent his few years in studying at the universities of Berlin, Munich, Lausanne. Besides, he is a great traveler?spends only his winters in Berlin and the rest of the year roaming the world. The spirit of the man who wrote this strange book about Peter the Great is best expressed in his own words: "I must go on fighting with a hot blade the sounding battles within...
Legend nourishes the play. Into the spirit of a lovelorn girl enters the spirit of her dead lover, driven from her by the mean ambition of her family. It must be exorcised by mighty, most holy incantation...