Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold a convention that will turn the American Legion green with envy. From a line of glorious stars of the screen, the chairman of the group will crown a Pickle Queen. Once more, America will acknowledge the stupendous role the pickle has played in the flowering of the human spirit...
...Americans. As a painter, he first thought of drawing pictures of it, but he changed his mind. What he wanted to show was not just a painting of the festival. He wanted to explain how the bulls affect the lives of the people who work with them, how the spirit of the fight captures the toreador, how he rassles with fear, and how fear sometimes wins. This picture of a peoples' spirit behind the great pageant of the corrida required a novel. Tom Lea called his novel "The Brave Bulls...
...best friend are killed together in an automobile crash, and Luis Bello can no longer stand up to the bulls. For the first time in his career, he is afraid of the horns. Forced into the Cuenca corrida, Luis conquers his fear and regains his bull fighting spirit...
...Supreme Being, the eternal and infinite Spirit, Creator and Sovereign of the universe. - Webster's International Dictionary...
Munch appreciates art for what it is, not for its monetary value. He is by nature completely unmaterialistic, although it has been pointed out that a men with a millionaire wife has no real need for being materialistic. But in this case, the spirit is not superficial. He has one abiding interest in life--music. That is why he is so impatient with musicians who discuss with him the positions he might get. That is why recently, when he heard indirectly that an orchestra he was guest conducting was in financial peril, he returned his salary. These are superficial examples...