Word: spirits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subscriber and am so disgusted with my first copy that I am writing to cancel my subscription. I do not like the un-American spirit that calls that disgusting book by Rupert Hughes so good that it is being recommended and advertised "at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor (TIME...
...above) had dined on New Year's Day, wrote on a piece of paper that he wanted to "find out how things are over there," and killed himself with a revolver. Members of his fraternity (Delta Kappa Epsilon) sat up two nights waiting in vain for a spirit message. Student Noe had promised: "I'll be back at midnight...
...novel is semiautobiographical, as its publishers hint darkly, then one can understand the author's readiness to be as garrulous in recalling his wounds of the spirit as an old soldier describing the carnage at Appomattox. That the book is carefully written?and perhaps for that reason especially appreciated by Britons, now in rebellion against the loose writing of the day-there is no doubt. But there is the feeling of words too long sought, too painstakingly chosen. For example a stream "wimples...
...ever there was a story fit to be set to music it is the story of this early Czar of Russia, and eminently fitting is the music which Moussorgsky was inspired to write. In it he has embodied the fierce old Muscovite Boyar himself; in it is the spirit of the half Oriental Princes who fought to drive the Tartan hordes from the gates; in it and through it is the note of something primitive, something untamed like the bleakness of the steppes and the snowfields. From the opening curtain to the great climatic scene of Borl's coronation, when...
...world has ever known in the new school at Cambridge which Mr. Baker has made possible is of double significance. By this joining forces with the collegians the city of Boston has demonstrated a friendly appreciation of what the university can do for her business interests and a spirit of cooperation in a very practical case that will work for the advancement of both...