Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commented Lady Oxford, famed as Margot Asquith: "A vast dummy gun is on the fine site opposite the hospital, which would have been glad to receive half the money spent on it and other horrors that we could all numerate to perpetuate the spirit which it should be the privilege of the Church to combat...
...some time the women voters remained ladies, tripping prim and proper to and from the balloting. But the spirit of the thing came upon them and a score reverted to the fishwife, yanking hair, screeching epithets, tearing skirts and blouses in a wrangle on the turf. Spectators guffawed, applauded...
...Upshot, as is usual in these investigations, was nothing proved for or against physical manifestation from the spirit world. Scientists are not prepared to stake their reputations upon the slim data at hand; mediums, however honest, become hipped on their powers...
...spirit of true science was with these politico-sportsman-adventurers. venturers. On first penetrating the Pamirs, they found the Ovis poli looking rather seedy, his winter coat not yet grown. They held their fire, descended the crags, and went over into the Thian Shan mountains for the ibex, Thian Shan sheep, bear, roe, goitered gazelle and a variety of birds and small mammals. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, set off for civilization via the Caspian Sea with these politico sportsman ad-to the Pamirs put the Roosevelts to finish their work...
This is not a minor indictment. The spirit of play can be ruined quite as easily with cheap heroics as with money, and with consequences in the way of false standards equally harmful to the boys involved. For while bribes and subsidies will debauch the few who play, the do-or-die stuff makes eternal sophomores not only out of the few who play but also out of the many who applaud. What was George F. Babbitt but an eternal sophomore...