Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missionaries arriving from the interior told of bandit gangs raiding undefended villages in a spirit of grim carnival. In the formerly law-abiding province of Shantung, for example, the town of Wangchihpao was sacked and 1,000 Chinese killed. Many children whose parents had been murdered came to the bandits, begged mercy, food. Ogreish, the murderers amused themselves by seizing the legs and arms of the smaller children and literally tearing them to pieces. Older boys and girls were stripped, then flogged, or maimed, killed or set free at the whim of their captors...
Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...
...distant when no man shall be deemed competent to give any instruction in outdoor sports unless he is associated in the Faculty with the teachers of literature, science and philosophy. Then all the work and all the play of the university will be animated by one spirit and directed toward one goal...
Professionalism has invaded the last stronghold of amateur athletics, the schools and colleges, although there still seems to be a feeling that appearances must be maintained at any cost. Evasions and technicalities are used to get around the spirit of the amateur rule. If the public permits them it tacitly gives its consent to professionalism and opens the way for its active sponsors...
...very good to know that contemporary to oneself, in the midst of all that may seem mediocre and so much but mere dross, there is at least one great spirit, living and suffering, pondering and creating. In Jacob Wassermann there can be seen a great master in the very process of development. Each new book discovers him with a firmer grasp of the technique of his craft, with clearer vision of moral truth. Paradoxically, although it is not as great a book, "Wedlock" is a distinct improvement upon the "World's Illusion...