Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not the slightest idea what you mean when you say 'Locarno' or 'the Spirit of Locarno.' If you mean peaceful relations, then that is what we have been seeking for a long time. . . . The future will show if the Locarno agreement really has the pacific character attributed to it by those participating in it, or whether some of them will not regret this work after some time. . . . I may say that Russia has no intention of forming a group of states facing the Baltic sea or the North...
...have not the spirit to call our souls our own; no, nor even to entertain the belief that we have souls." This is the conclusion to which Mr. Farrar of The Bookman comes at the end of an editorial in the current issue. Why is it, Mr. Farrar wonders, than the people of America prefer to get their opinions ready-made instead of making them for themselves...
Prohibition. "It is the law of the land. It is the duty of all who come under its jurisdiction to observe the spirit of that law, and it is the duty of the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department to enforce it. But the Constitution also puts a concurrent duty on the States. We need their active and energetic cooperation, the vigilant action of their police and the jurisdiction of their courts to assist in enforcement...
Throughout England the famed "spirit of Locarno" showed signs of becoming a sort of international "Pollyanna" at the hands of unoriginal writers who did their best to grind it into a threadbare catch phrase...
...Mosul question (see INTERNATIONAL) should be settled by "a Turkish Locarno"; and the Ulster boundary agreement (see IRELAND) was mentioned on every hand as "the Irish Locarno." Cynical persons predicted the hour when the Peking Customs Conference (see CHINA) would be touted as "the Chinese Locarno." Meanwhile this felicitous spirit was rumored to have flown in at the door of the St. James's Club, famed exclusive rendezvous of London diplomats. As a result, a spokesman for the German Embassy hinted that his colleagues are shortly to be invited back into the club, which has been closed to them...