Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press in general displayed a friendly spirit of welcome, gave publicity to a remark made by Lady Astor as she sailed for England last week: "There is no woman in all Europe who has a better War record than Queen Marie. Do you know she went into leprous buildings where all others were afraid to go and where the dead were piled high and people were dying of disease...
Myra became a beautiful young woman, short, plump, like a dove in repose, in action very erect, vital, challenging. Her spirit and swift wit were of a sort that old John Driscoll could understand, "racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left his house, penniless, after two years of intense, secret waiting, to marry the man whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always...
Coach E. L. Casey '19, of the Freshman eleven expects a hard game, but sees an encouraging sign in the greater co-operation and team spirit of the men, all of which has developed in the past week. Against Andover, the weakness of the Freshmen lay not so much in offense or defense, but in lack of co-ordinate team-play, which is due, naturally enough, to the abbreviated length of time that the men had worked together. Another week's work has smoothed one many of the rough spots, and a much-improved eleven will take the field...
...great poems come from such a combination. There must be the emotional ecstasy, the detachment from self, and the sense of worship of something fair and supernal and immortal, but with this, hand in hand, must march a care and pride in craft, that keeps the mind and spirit working together that the result may be as lofty as possible...
...present session of the American Federation of Labor is a visible manifestation of the change of the spirit of the working man. The fiery contempt for all things smacking of privilege, the desire to tear down the established order of things, so notable in the resolutions of past Conventions, have all subsided and in their place has arisen a tendency toward, thoughtful study of labor and national problems. Labor is becoming civilized...