Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commercial theatre and the art theatre. Both are forms of entertainment, but one provides the audience effortless amusement; the other demands an audience of willing imagination. Reinhardt has surrendered the masses to the movies and incorporated producers. He invites the theatrically devoted to visit his theatre in a spirit of pilgrimage...
Last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh again visited Dayton, this time on the course of his U. S. tour to stir aviation interest. Early one afternoon the Spirit of St. Louis whirled, drifted, slid down out of a blue sky, landed on McCook Field. The field was almost literally deserted. So, after a brief conversation with officials, Colonel Lindbergh sailed up in the air once more, reappeared one hour later at the time scheduled for his arrival. Seven thousand citizens, shrilling and cheering, heard Colonel Lindbergh gravely remark on Dayton as an aviation centre...
...Professor Henry R. Spencer, of Ohio State, saw a U. S. Mussolini lurking in public apathy toward public problems. "When public spirit sleeps, the dark powers have their chance," he said...
...England by birth and outlook, familiar with the spirit and life of the West and its educational ideals, he has the point of view, vision, the culture, demanded by Amherst's great history." ? President David Kinley, University of Illinois...
...published for pay as the author of books or articles on golf of which he is not actually the author. He has not received any consideration because of his skill at the game; nor has he acted in a manner detrimental to the best interests and the true spirit of the game...