Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wished with all my faculties that the social world would belong to every uman creatures, just so as it was the fruit of the work of all. But this do not mean robbery. . . "The insurrection, the great movement of the soul, do not nedd dollars. It nedd love, light, spirit of sacrifice, idears, conscience instints. And all this blassing things can be seeded, awoked, growed up in the heart of man in every way but with robbery or murder for robbery. . . "Do not violate the law of Nature if you do not want to be miserable. I remember...
...divided between Right and Left that it has not known its own mind with conviction for two years. Staccato Declaration. The Chamber quieted-eventually. Premier Poincaré read his ministerial declaration in a crisp, resolute, staccato monotone: "The Cabinet which presents itself before you has been formed in a spirit of national reconciliation to meet the danger which threatens the value of our money, the liberty of our treasury and the equilibrium of our finances. . . . "There may arise later questions on which the Cabinet may differ, but today they are entirely in accord on the necessity, on the urgency...
...Catholic Church, abetted by and abetting Spain, extinguished virtually all other religious cults before Mexico won independence of Spain in 1824. It remained for a full-blooded Mexican Indian, Benito Pablo Juarez -after whom Benito Mussolini was christened-to raise the "Reform War" of 1855-61, the pan-Mexican spirit of which was infused into the antiPapal constitution of 1857 and finally forged into the present constitution of 1917 which specifically declares: "Only a Mexican by birth may be a minister of any religious creed in Mexico." Juarez, while president, not only repelled the attempts of Napoleon...
...capitol* of their faith. About the grounds ran a miniature railway bearing food for the many hundreds who waited in arduous patience to hear a "sweet, penetrating voice" issue from the soft, brown lips of their Jiddu Krishnamurti. In such tones will their "World Teacher" speak when his spirit flitters into Jiddu's tennis-playing, tea-drinking body. They saw nothing, heard nothing; they closed their congress. Soon Jiddu, under ward of Mrs. Besant, will come to Manhattan. Lutherans Outraged by bland demands for Cathedral of St. John the Divine and National Cathedral construction funds cried last week...
...became People's Commissar (Minister) for Transport and later president of the Supreme Economic Council, a post which he held at the time of his death. To Dzerzhinsky-in the opinion of virtually all foreign correspondents at Moscow-belongs almost the sole credit for having inculcated a spirit kindred to "efficiency" into sluggard Soviet industry. Working in sympathy with Trotzsky-also "a practical man"-he has striven literally day and night to combat the visionary, theoretical Marxism which is the chief curse of the Soviets...