Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alone in seven thousand dollars worth of machinery and the upper spaces of the Atlantic heavens a man is pushing his way from New York to Paris on a non-stop flight. Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in his plane. The Spirit of St. Louis, keeps alive and energetic an ancient tradition, the tradition which sent men into peaks in Darien and sends men up the frigid sides of Mt. Everest...
...when people have most things fairly well analyzed and the rest fairly well conjectured, no one dares deny the almost divine whimsicality which now sends men voyaging through the fogs of the Atlantic in tiny planes like the Spirit of St. Louis. Were Conrad still living he would see in this what he saw in the passsage of the Narcissus. It smacks of the hardboiled days of the Spanish Main; it has no touch of the mauve decade. And thus, if for no other reason, is it worth while...
...munificent gift of the Sterling Trustees will make it possible for Yale to introduce in the Law School something of the spirit and atmosphere of the English Inns-of-Court," said R. M. Hutchins, Acting Dean of the School, in commenting today upon the University announcement. "Yale is the first privately endowed university in America to take this step. The men will live together and frequently, if not always, dine together. Thus will be developed, we hope, an intimate sense of professional solidarity and interest in legal problems. The recent important changes in the policy of the School in limiting...
Whether Blake was insane or a very great genius will, perhaps, never be decided. Yet, whatever he may have been, his art, whether poetic or decorative, is certainly strange and not over restrained. In fact his drawings have a technique which--pardon the confusion of arts--suggests the spirit of his verse; verse which is rather primitivistic and either a rough diamond of genius or semi-incoherent whisperings of incipient insanity as you choose to look at it. In any case they are out of the ordinary, and well worth a trip to the Boston Fine Arts Museum...
...other athletic contests there is a disturbing element of chance. But today there are no upsets. An Olympian calm pervades Plympton Street, for the conventional huge scarlet margin has been got out, dusted, and is ready for service. The Lampoon with its gracile lethargy and its dogged comic spirit has without cessation offered itself as the goat or the this or whatever constitutes the flors and fauna of defeated parties for so many years that the CRIMSON has come to admire its tenacity and is sincere when it says that if natural laws could be overturned and two victors claim...