Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noted English novelist who spoke at the Harvard Union last night, stated in an interview yesterday afternoon. "Actually, there can be little distinction. We are of the same blood and speak and think alike. To expect that the mere signing of the Declaration of Independence would change the whole spirit of a nation is foolish. The literature of the two nations is one. Sherwood Anderson, for instance, I consider just as much an English novelist as I do myself an American. I have just as many readers on this side of the Atlantic as abroad...
...told him their troubles. All of them held posts on the newly appointed radio commission; they were beginning their work without salaries, offices, desks or even wastebaskets, for Congress had failed to appropriate money to carry on their work. The President condoled with them, thanked them for their public spirit. Comforted, they returned to an office in an empty wing of the Department of Commerce building, sat down on borrowed chairs. From the Department of Agriculture they borrowed one Sam Pickard to act as their secretary, from the Department of Justice borrowed attorneys, from the War, Navy and Commerce Departments...
Architecture is the most practical of arts as well as one of the most aesthetic. A building that serves for centuries to house the religion of unnumbered thousands is beautiful with a spirit that has no equal in any other form of human expression...
...will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept twenty years to find a new city grown up on the brown stone ashes of the old Borough." Apart from the dream...
...early Christian temple was different in spirit from pagan shrines in that the former was a place to meet for worship, whereas the latter was considered the actual residence of the divinity. The result was a lack of self-consciousness and a simplicity that is of much interest to the student of the arts...