Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by whom Sinclair was lately tried and sentenced for contempt of court, was momentarily dragged into the case, then dropped when a mysterious package of '"bonds" turned out to be Christmas cards. The spirit of error spread. In the Senate, the Republican Robinson, from politically malodorous Indiana, arose and inquired if Harry F. Sinclair had not been a New York State horse-race commissioner from 1922 to 1925. Senator Nye jumped up and volunteered that it was his "understanding" that Sinclair had been "a very...
Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...
...therefore appeases his soul and enlivens his sad spirit not a little when he considers the prospect of being soothed by Arthur Honegger's symphonic psalm "King David" which the Glee Club is singing in Symphony Hall tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...
...convinced that Professor Rollins does not understand the spirit and "essence" of poetry. When one has glanced through several of the volumes Professor Rollins had edited, this statement appears even more absurd and ridiculous than the later statement about "novels, chronology, and similar bricks and mortar of literature". Neither of these statements is any more worthy of serious comment than the "skillibooch . . . gmmk" of a baby-or the braying of an ass. Such noises speak for themselves-certain vibrations have issued forth from a cavity into the surrounding atmosphere causing a meaningless noise at which we must either laugh...
Professor Rollins is from the evidence of his examination not much interested in the spirit and essance of poetry. His interest sems to be centered in novels, chronology and similar bricks and mortar of literature. This is after all a good and typically scholarly point of view: but it is to be questioned whether this sort of scholarship is the aim of many of those who listen to his lectures. (Name withheld by request...