Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national arms for peace or war." The Scout Manual, in answering the question, "What is a Boy Scout?" says: "A scout is a patriot and is always ready to serve his country at a minute's notice. ... He desires a strong body, an alert mind and an unconquerable spirit so that he may serve his country in any need. . . . A scout chooses as his motto 'Be Prepared...
...sentimental letters urging you to do this are but another example of that fundamentally tyrannical spirit - distressingly on the increase in our country - which would have a man eat, drink, sleep, think, wear a blue band on his straw hat, exactly as his neighbors. . . . Vast waves of mechanical thinking. . . . There is no need to "square yourselves," as has been suggested. Your motives are clear, perfectly decent, and justified - to those who will take a little trouble to think...
...nightmare of the lower classes has saddened very badly your father's soul. The men of this dying old society, they brutally pulled me away from the embrace of your brother and your poor mother. But, in spite of all, the free spirit of a father's faith still survives, and I have lived for it and for the dream that some day I would have come back to life, among our friends and comrades again, but woe is me." Despondent, indeed, was the tone of Mr. Sacco's letter and gloomy the outlook for both...
While Charles Augustus Lindbergh put final commas in his book, We, mechanics put final nut-twists and spurts of oil on The Spirit of St. Louis. Government mechanics at the same time got ready a U. S. Department of Commerce monoplane and all was prepared for Colonel Lindbergh to leave New York for his eight-week tour of the U. S., escorted by Donald E. Keyhoe of the information section of the U. S. Aeronautics Bureau. Their itinerary was announced...
...philosophers accord Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and poets, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil. It was of great moment to them, therefore, when Sir Joseph Duveen, art dealer of England, announced purchase for $3,000,000 of the famed Benson collection, which, better than any other private collection extant, traces the history and spirit of early painting in Italy. Robert H. Benson is head of a potent, English banking house which bears his name. With the assistance of his wife, who is related to the late Sir George Lindsay Holford, another owner of famed Italian masterpieces, he indulged his passion for art collecting over...