Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Questioned concerning the film in which she stars with Jack Holt, the stately beauty merely smiled. "The storm is rather nauseating, especially the third time. Though it is not a real typhoon. And Jack is such a dear. He has dignity, real dignity. But for verve, spirit, give me Adolph any time. Wasn't he just wonderful? No. I didn't really ever get into the bath. Yes it was furnished by the Crane company--and Adolph says such funny things--"But I have never had the role I want...
...anything can put a damper on the vagabonding spirit, it is a cold. Rain helps a little. That grand New England institution of the boardwalk has its merits and its cracks. While a chair and "Gandle Follows His Nose", the book which Heywood Broun claims to have read more often that any other novel in the language--possibly because he wrote it--, may wreck the best intentions in the world...
...have fostered this Puritanical seriousness with the bleak and dismal plains which cover much of the state, with nothing in the way of trees, hills or lakes from horizon to horizon to add frills to a severely simple landscape. At any rate, Kansas is a state where the spirit of blue laws is strong...
...Puritan spirit is usually associated with hard and bare surroundings. Hence Kansas towns are plain, the grain elevators are plain, the rivers are plain, the sunflower is a plain flower. The highways are unpaved. Indelible is the stamp of the Kansas road on the transcontinental touring car that strikes rain between St. Joseph and Denver and the driver must get out to dig the clay from the mudguards so that the wheels can turn round...
...October fill a more substantial need than examinations in March. For the fall brings back to academic pursuits a host of men who have whiled away the summertime in physical exertion or passive vagabondage. Perhaps examinations in late October can tell whether or not they have returned in spirit as in person...