Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bishop's statement were threatened by officials with "energetic punishment" should they commit another such offense; and the Government released a press communique declaring that "in the fictitious, measured tone . . . of Seņor Miguel M. de la Mora who calls himself Bishop of San Luis Potosi . . . there prevails the spirit of frank rebellion...
...Harvard undergraduates will not be forced into sociability and collegettes. It has always been the spirit of "individualism" that has dominated life in the University,--the tradition founded with the college 293 years ago. On the historic grounds of old Cambridge, the student body, led by the Lampoon, are emulating their New England ancestors; possibly they are staging a little Boston Tea Party of their own to defend their traditional and customary rights to eat, sleep and choose their own friends and companions...
Lately, the Rt. Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett, Bishop of Southwark, England, caught the colorful spirit of the age and pleaded for brighter Bibles. Said...
...Fairchild, Walter's 10-year-old son, and everybody hopes everybody else will like everybody else. Meanwhile Florence, inspecting the Fairchild apartment on Riverside Drive, feels she-doesn't-exactly-know-how in an apartment which was furnished by Walter's first wife and now is inhabited by her spirit. Florence wants to live in the East Sixties. Walter wants his western clients to be im-pressed with the Riverside Drive address, thinks Westerners are unaware of the smartness of the East Side. They are married, move to the East Side, buy new furniture...
...conceited, cultured, intelligent member of the best Continental society is forced by sudden poverty to start his life over again in a tremendously different environment. He accepts his new position, or rather the lack of it, in an adventurous spirit, despite the disillusionments and disappointments lying in his path. The large body of the book is taken up with the transition in the immigrant's whole attitude, his entire philosophy, from that of an over-educated gentlemen of leisure into a semi-radical but far more human character...