Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning Rautendelein was just a pale, elfin creature who lived in a German wood at the bottom of a well. She was really no being at all, just a light, pagan spirit who kissed men's eyes and made them well. And as such she came to Gerhart Hauptmann who put out his fingers swiftly and caught her for a play about a village bellcaster...
...vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears in his eyes he described the undergraduates who were not present as "yellow" and he asked. "What has become of the old Yale spirit . . . perhaps they are too cultured to come here. . . ." President Angell gave nod: of gloom...
Whether the decline of the old Yale spirit or the superiority of the Harvard lateral pass play was chiefly responsible for the latter's victory, it is impossible to say. The score was 17-o, with honors to Harvard's Guarnaccia & French...
...boys buy their own tools, the tuition is the work they do. Cabinets, carved wood, original in conception but steeped in the old Italian spirit are sold to the equal benefit of the shop and the young artisan...
...Mahoney Aircraft Corp. (Mahoney-Ryan) San Diego, Calif. / Ryan / Passenger & cargo / . $12,200 / Lindbergh & Spirit of St. Louis...