Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, the Chancellor defended his Budget with spirit, for some hours, careless or unconscious of his rising fever. Suddenly, however, he was seen to sway, and then to hurry from the House. A moment later he sped by motor up broad Whitehall to his nearby official residence at No. 11 Downing Street-next door to famed "No. 10," the residence of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Soon Mr. Churchill was tucked into bed. A doctor who could not presume to say I-told-you-so declared firmly that Chancellor Churchill had a seemingly not dangerous case of influenza but must...
...stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
...that we are with them during this, the most crucial part of the season. Get behind the team and the team will never be behind Climb on the wagon and set sail for Cambridge on the morrow, not with an air of superiority or inferiority, but with the traditional spirit of this institution Holy Cross, win or lose, Holy Cross. Holy Cross Tomahawk
...duty," it were superfluity to add a jot. Six thousand throats have bled themselves white cheering for the team so far this season. Twelve thousand feet have stamped in unison whenever an opposing pitcher showed the slightest tendency to waver. Harvard wants no flagging of this spirit...
...With "The Moon Is a Gong", and the "Taming of the Shrew" in its immediate past, the club need not be praised for its progressiveness or ambition in producing the unproduced "Hassan". But what may be warmly approved, is successful concession to the general taste, without relinquishment of the spirit of artistic adventure...