Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write with no purpose of challenging the motives of the members of the House or unduly criticizing their action. On the contrary, I feel certain that that body was largely influenced by the desire of showing that spirit of forgiveness and conciliation which are so honorable to human nature and characteristic of Christian forbearance and teaching. . . . Nevertheless, I think, with all due respect, the action of the House was a great mistake. There is such a thing as excess even in kindness...
...Washington last week Secretary Kellogg dourly intimated that all the French reservations could not be met, but added with an air of quiet determination that the State Department would proceed with the negotiations in a patient and conciliatory spirit...
...familiar anecdotes. His enthusiasm for every Jew has robbed him of his discrimination, defeated his own humble purpose of segregating them. Superlatives are plentiful as periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative of the spirit dominating the long-suffering sons and daughters of his race." His tone "has been accepted as the standard by which violinists are measured." Heifetz is "the greatest technical genius of the violin of the present day." Kreisler is "the King of Violinists. Hats...
...Modern democracies overload their executive leaders with so many responsibilities and duties that they have little strength or freshness of spirit left for a creative leadership of the nation's life...
Professor of sociology, the author recognizes one of America's "problems" in the itinerant Negro "with the don't keer spirit, go day, come day, God send Sunday." But he sees the sociological evil in a setting of romance, and suggests graphically, if a bit lengthily, that his black hero's vaguely discontented lack of ambition is somewhat atoned by the charm of his sudden optimism...