Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Date Line is disconcerting, but not to Count Leo N. Tolstoi, philosopher, sculptor, playwright, political scientist, third son and namesake of the late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...
...spirit of American fair play should inspire Mr. Ford to impose upon himself the solemn duty of taking steps to counteract that influence with the same energy and enterprise that was employed in his name to spread the ideas he now acknowledges were false. As the world's richest man, Henry Ford has the unique opportunity of making an amende honorable to the Jewish people by sponsoring a world-wide campaign of education against national chauvinism, religious bigotry and racial antagonism...
...Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having the Constitution owned by outsiders did not appeal strongly to Atlantans, than whom no people of the South are more filled with "booster spirit" (civic pride). But the news was mitigated by a notice that the Clark Howells, Sr. & Jr., would continue as publisher-editor and business manager respectively. This arrangement was part of the terms of sale. Atlanta was thus assured of its same old Constitution until the two Clarks shall cease their Howelling...
...Europe as an oil-smeared refugee from U. S. justice. The properties are conscientiously collected and arranged in about onethird of the book but Author Sinclair evidently got weary of the creative task he had set himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when...
...that he would sell a Bible publicly as well as Oil! and succeeded in selling one to a police man by pasting an Oil! jacket on a Bible. No practical joke, this was supposed to involve the Bible in whatever legal proceedings might be brought against Oil! In a spirit more of fun and smartness, Author Sinclair brought out a special Fig Leaf Edition for Boston, with censored passages decorously stamped out by fig-like foliage. A likely passage for a fig leaf: "And then the new President : a little man whose fame was based upon the legend...