Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heat of contact with her dynamic mother. They were more than usually devoted, and sometimes showed their affection in fierce but not violent quarrels. The death of her fiance, the late Duke of Clarence, and death of her mother perhaps gave to Queen Mary that final trial of spirit which renders her understanding and sympathy with human suffering so entirely queenly...
...driving at 45 m.p.h., that 17 of the 52 inmates of a local insane asylum had automobile driving licenses and used them during suspension periods. The 45-m.p.h.-man believed that at that speed his motor ran at no cost, being actuated by the power of a foreign spirit...
...elements were propitious for a flight from New York to Paris. He took a two-hour sleep, then busied himself with final preparations at Roosevelt Field, L. I. Four sandwiches, two canteens of water and emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from the governor...
Some of the crowd of 25,000 attempted to strip souvenirs from the Spirit of St. Louis, while the majority escorted Captain Lindbergh, on somebody's shoulders, to a nearby clubhouse. Then, there were congratulations from U. S. Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick and French officials, a massage and some coffee (he had refused to take coffee on the flight), a motor trip through dense traffic to Paris and ten hours' sleep in the U. S. Embassy...
...game. Conference upholders will deny this vehemently, but , both benefits and evils alike, even they must admit that the Daily errs in its supposition that selection of an outside man to govern the refereeing in this one game is in any way an indication of a conference spirit. The plan is, if properly analyzed, in exact coordination with the objectives of football reform and is therefore antipathetic toward anything which would tend to increase the importance of intercollegiate football, already a giant in all parts of the country, as opposed to intramural...