Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that B. E. the Premier, Mr. Mussolini, was highly interested in it, and expressed his firm will that the ninth Congress of the C. I. E. should be a perfect demonstration of order and magnitude, and, above all, a noble manifestation of the new Italian university spirit...
With such an army of candidates for degrees in a variety of distinct schools. It is no wonder that little class spirit or even class consciousness exists in the student body as a whole. Even in the school of arts there was so little cohesion among the more than 300 seniors that all the traditional Class Day features had to be abandoned except the senior prom. Only twenty seniors had shown themselves sufficiently interested to buy tickets to the Class Day exercises as planned...
...more magnificent sentences, Senator Ashurst enunciated the whole spirit of a filibusterer, as follows: "Although of superb physical strength, you can take the heart even out of an elephant, the stomach out of an ostrich, and you may finally pierce the hide of a rhinoceros if you keep at him so great a time as the long and weary months that I have been practically on the gridiron, trying to prevent the great injustice this bill would perpetrate upon Arizona...
...essay on Carl Sandburg which seems more in the nature of a bit of scholarly research than material for the Advocate. The article is beyond doubt well written, but it bears an atmosphere suspiciously reminiscent of reports and tutorial labors. The familiar essay seems more in keeping with the spirit of the Advocate than any scholarly treatise on the subject of one of our modern poets. But then, the editors are apparently seeking to publish a well balanced magazine, and your reviewer's protest against Mr. Robinson's essay may be in the nature of a confession of bourgeoise taste...
...word may be wise. In this production one gets a glimpse of what can be done with a piece if it is intelligently produced. Mr. Ames has spared on trouble or cost with the cast and the staging. The favorites of last year are back, and again the same spirit of general good humore runs through the show. You feel all the time that the cast is having as good a time as you are--perhaps--better, although that is hard to understand. The sets are what the crities are went to call lavish, and that is as good...