Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty haphazard years of jerrybuilding followed. The Civil War focused national attention upon the capital and its miserable estate. Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself. Washington grew out of its youthful squalor, but recklessly, without unity or good taste. Architecture went on a gingerbread spree?viz. the State, War & Navy Building, the Post Office Department Building. The L'Enfant plan was forgotten...
...venture to express the hope that as a corollary to this attitude the delegations of other countries will in like manner make the maximum of such concessions as they find possible. I do this in no spirit of bargaining...
...this spirit that I have made a fundamental concession today...
...They have two purposes; first, to give a dramatic representation of the method and spirit that exist at the Assembly and Council at Geneva, and second, to form a new and interesting type of debating society in which a certain reality is given discussions of international problems since the students debate from the view points of the nations that they represent...
...spirit of The Sportsman is not that of the common or (Boston) garden fan. The Sportsman is the American equivalent of the Earl of Lonsdale. It wears the tallest of tall gray hats. It rides to hounds, and it does more; it hounds its readers to ride. Steeplechasing, polo, the court games, and its more gentlemanly side of aviation are its favorite themes. There is no humor in these things, but plenty of fun can be poked at their devotees. The Lampoon has done a good...