Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad. Inexperienced men should not feel at a loss, since we have developed innumerable stars from men who never even saw a pair of spiked shoes before. I can guarantee a place on the squad to every man who comes to practice regularly, obeys the training rules in spirit as well as in letter, studies hard, and pitches in on the work here for all he is worth...
...five-&-ten-cent store Herman had purchased some six dozen nickel-plated ash trays. Commuters in that office building compared gifts going out on the 5:15. They showed their prizes to their wives; in voices trembling with affection they told the story of humble Herman and his Christmas spirit...
...Indorsed by the Bible, Shakespeare and Dr. Frank Crane. 'The poor ye have always with you.' Under auspices of the best newspapers, cashing in on the Christmas spirit. New thrills this year, unique displays, incredible suffering and destitution, old-fashioned slums, widows and orphans, homeless babies and centenarians, everything. This way for the 'thrill of giving,' the 'pleasure and satisfaction' of charity (New York Times editorial). Good for jaded nerves and appetites; the best tonic for your conscience; a help in digesting your Christmas dinner...
...Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...
...spirit of the President's statement is inspired by that same fallary which led to the Sedilen Acts of 1798 and 1918. He speaks of the opposition as an American as if the United States were founded on the medieval principle of the divine right of Kings, of the inalienable sovereignty of the government, whereas it is founded on the principle of the sovereignty of the people and of representative government. In order that the people may properly exercise this sovereignty, the fullest discussion of public men and measures must hot only be permitted but encouraged. The government is given...