Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carrie Lane, Carrie Chapman, Carrie Catt, name her what you will, an Iowa farmer's daughter (born however in Wisconsin), was thus denounced, and, her spirit certainly held sway in the meeting of the International Suffrage Alliance not only because of her financial contributions (as Mrs. Belmont mentioned) but because she was its founder and President from 1904 to 1923 when she retired (TIME...
...chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with the spirit of a bourgeois curate, rising to histrionic heights on emotional wings supplied by the death of her asthmatic daughter-shallow and caddish Painter Thomas Lawrence being lugged in to emphasize the inferiority of the Siddons-Kemble strain. The one study that comes off concerns a brilliant young French historian...
...discipline; but the boys flew, repaired, overhauled and flew again their few machines, until by September there were 28 trained flyers ready for war. Then Trubee Davison, their leader, crashed and broke his back, but from his bed, and later from his wheel chair, he still held the "Unit" spirit together, even when the members scattered to distant duties...
...Harvard men to Harvard is seldom more impressively evident than it is at the meetings of the associated Harvard Clubs. Any athletic event the Yale game football or baseball, for choice will call forth, in the nature of the case, a more concentrated and vociferous expression of Harvard spirit, but for eagerness and variety of interest in everything the University is joing, no other occasion rivals this annual guttering of the Harvard clans. The enthusiasm at the Chicago meeting last week was notable Confidence in the University, in President Lowell especially, and in the faculty and in the athletic inthorities...
According to the conception of sovereign ethics prevalent before the war, this holdup is no doubt justifiable, simply because it is possible. But the new spirit of internationalism which attempts to prevent costly disturbances can not afford to tolerate the more obvious forms of obstruction...