Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To Mrs. William P. Erwin, wife of the late pilot of the Dallas Spirit (monoplane) lost last August while searching the Pacific Ocean for missing Dole Prize flyers; a son, in Dallas...
...sought and found a small niche at the Guild. When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy they asked him if he thought he could do it. He said yes. They, fortunately, believed him. Just how an Armenian-Russian caught the spirit of the U. S. Negro with such astounding skill and subtlety nobody seems to know. Mr. Mamoulian explains it cheerfully by saying he is a Southerner, born in the Caucasus...
...Bishop Manning's own sight has been raising its gorgeous walls on Manhattan's heights. The Bishop, at the Cathedral Horse Show, made plain his pleasure with sports. "The horse show is a real tribute to sport," said Bishop Manning. "It exemplifies to the highest degree the spirit which is responsible for the Sportsmen's Bay in the Cathedral. I feel that the Sportsmen's Bay is one of the most significant and interesting things in the Cathedral. It surely is a very great thing to have in the greatest house of worship in our land...
...things of the mind. But on Saturday, especially in the fall, all this generally goes off with the Friday night undressing, and Saturday's clean shirt brings with it a new character. Ice cream cones have vanished, and tub splashing is gone with all dead things, but the splashing spirit is still ready to splash...
...particular is the Vagabond ready to burst forth. Late last night he disturbed the occupants of a certain dormitory with his efforts to master the war whoop of a Dartmouth Indian on the march, so that he might be polite when he greets his New Hampshire friends. And his spirit is so buoyant that he expects to get his quota of enjoyment out of his Section 17 perch in the Stadium. To all luckier and less lucky brethren he wishes a strong weekend...