Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...named anything else but "Spirit of St. Louis, 2nd"-and the succeeding planes he has built for himself, "Spirit of St. Louis, 3d-4th-" etc? The city of St. Louis sponsored his epoch-making flight and this generous, far-sighted act is responsible for all of the glory which has immortalized the man and his achievement...
Chairman of the Inter-American Commission of Women, to Study the Civil and Political Status of Women in the American Republics-no less-was what the governors of the Pan-American Union last week appointed Doris Stevens to be. Miss Stevens, a moving spirit within the National Woman's Party, attended the Pan-American Congress last January in Havana to present an Equal Rights Treaty. This was the result, gratifying to herself and colleagues. Said she: "A step of great significance . . . challenge to law makers the world over." She outlined the scope of a new super-suffrage for women...
...Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled The Spirit of Egypt and, instead of merely running for office, flew for it, to Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak...
...Pope] did not mean to condemn the Fascist party for monopolizing the education of youth, but simply to insist ... as a Father speaking to his children . .. that education should be effected in a Christian spirit...
Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "A wise decision. . . . Many thoughtful ministers and laymen have expressed the belief of late that in supporting the dry and other sumptuary causes, the churches have compromised their moral appeal; that if one would persuade the spirit he should not at the same time threaten the body...