Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will ever have our hearty support, irrespective of parties and races, as long as it is and shows the character of a commonwealth of free and independent nations, each free and striving to attain what is best for itself, yet in such a manner and in such a spirit as will conduce as much as possible to the well-being...
...wines of those countries be admitted to Norway, were backed up by those nations with the temporary erection of a tariff wall "prohibiting" the sale of Norwegian fish to their nationals, an act which led to relaxation of the Norwegian law to permit the sale of all drinkables except spirits; 1923-26?increase in spirit smuggling into Norway until even laborers can now afford the one-time "national spirit," Braendevin...
...Loves Us. Joseph P. McEvoy, author of Americana, The Potters, comic supplements, slashes bitterly at the huge industrial juggernaut that rolls flat the spirit of Hector Maclnerny Midge, average U. S. citizen. Though many have essayed to deal out Menckian blows this season, nothing on the current stage satirizes so incisively, originally, the cruel banalities of "big business, gogetters" as does this play about a man who is stuck for life at the assistant sales-manager level of a greeting card manufactory. At a "Father and Son" luncheon, the Reverend Harold Klump, "he-Christian," sounds the keynote of large-scale...
...associated with the Anti-Saloon League, at least the House should not let a breath of the affair get outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights of the Members of Parliament. Instead, he merely decried the fact that news of the existing exhilaration of various members should soil the name...
...Crimson aggregation showed a lack of inspiration, and played listlessly, possibly showing the reaction after the last two games, in which the spirit and drive of the 1930 team has been an outstanding feature...