Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bogota. Over the wilderness ranges of the Cordilleras curved the Spirit of St. Louis, first flying ship to risk a passage above the cloudy peaks. As he disembarked, Senorita Olga Noguera Davila, elected queen of local students, joined the tiny group of the world's women who have kissed Col. Lindbergh. Parades. Speeches. By Presidential decree he was presented with the Cross o) Boyaca, highest military award of the Colombian government, tenth ever bestowed...
...Crimson players' defeat at the hands of the Rhode Island hoopmen was somewhat of an upset in basketball for followers of both teams. A decided slump was shown in the Harvard players' spirit and speed which had carried them to victory in the three games previous...
Dean Nichols cites as examples of the CRIMSON'S new-found professional spirit, a policy for "live news" and a tendency to promoting "stinks"--Which he defines as "any controversy the reverberations of which should be more than of local and momentary importance." He also mentions that gradually editors of the Harvard paper have taken up jobs as cub reporters on metropolitan dailies during the summer or have worked as college correspondents for these same papers, thus further bringing to the CRIMSON the professional standpoint...
...dramatic purist this is no doubt a fault; but for him who goes to the theatre primarily for the purpose of enjoying himself and relieving his examination-troubled spirit, it turns out to be a virtue. For while the first half of "The Road to Rome" leads through a pleasant landscape of hundred percent Roman-American rotarianism, by the end of the second milestone it has entered into the realm of true dramatic tragedy, enlivened here and there with sparkling and often rather caustic wit--which is quite as it should be. And in keeping with the subject, the scenery...
...lion), July 24 to Aug. 23, governed by the Sun. Lordly, often haughty are Leo people. They excite envy, but seldom seek revenge. They are gluttons for work and like to have the bands playing with them. The spirit of Kiwanis and a tendency to early baldness are theirs. Under this sign were born Benito Mussolini,* Herbert Clark Hoover, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Ford, Ethel Barrymore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Napoleon Bonaparte...