Word: spiritism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ever the spirit of liberty should vanish from the rest of the Union, it could be restored by the generous store held by the people in this brave little State of Vermont...
...Voto went on to say that college authors should try to make their work less solemn, and more vibrant with the spirit of nature...
...arraignment leads, then, from the educational systems and their proponents to the undergraduate critic and from him to those who were responsible for his development. That development has brought about a selfish laxity of resolution quick to find fault and to lay blame elsewhere, and absence of the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness that is indispensable to education. The final responsibility attaches to the American conception of education as a mechanical process that lays stress on the method to the disparagement of the end, and then turns on itself, finding dissatisfaction in the perversion of its purpose...
...announced last week that the Personification of the Spirit of America would begin this week to stump for the Brown Derby. First speech: Newark, N. J., Sept...
...sleazy male racketeer with no abandoned strokes because for scornful presentation it is necessary only to be cameractual, phonographic. The rest of the characters look, smirk and jabber as if they belonged. The story is that of Buddy Miles, an apparently pure in body−if not in spirit−miss who is prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress, so when Julia jealously threatened...