Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Water, fire, and oil used to be our terrors, now they have become our servants. Even the thunderstorm is being used." Miss Royden then said that man has become a conquering spirit. He will not adapt himself to the world but will govern it. "A change has come, not into the universe or humanity; what has altered is the contact which is being established between the genius of man and the universe...
...little white spot dances slowly around the cabin of The Spirit of St. Louis. Col. Lindbergh is meticulously examining the ship by electric flashlight; guaranteeing to himself her fitness. In her cabin he stows unaccustomed implements, fish hooks, a cruel, keen machete.* Fish hooks for food; the knife to cut a path out of any tangled jungle into which ill luck may spill...
...right to presuppose that they arose with a spirit of good will; that they have kept irritating things from the family talk of the morning; that the last minute's rush to church has not provoked them to bad temper; that they come into the church to worship...
...right to presuppose that Saturday night has not been spent in parties and festivity. No one can play until the early hours of Sunday morning and rise in the right spirit of worship...
...Book. "Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne. ... I was born under the star of Aphrodite...