Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year about what-I-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up. When school let out early one day last week in St. Louis, practically no one sneaked to the movies. Some 60,000 small figures, and 40,000 large ones, massed on the Levee to watch the silver-winged Spirit of the city come whirring over to dip and circle in review at the Eads Bridge. Young St. Louis howled its delight...
...taking Holy Orders (TIME, Feb. 20), spoke, in Manhattan upon this topic: The Holy Comforter, or Vision and Supervision. Said he: "We have many saints in our higher offices today . . . there are many flapper saints in short skirts. . . . We should all try to get back to the childhood spirit. . . ." In addition, Bishop Darlington asserted that only one person in 500 communes "directly" with the Holy Ghost; that he would introduce jazz music into services if he thought it would bring many people into church...
Thus, the spirit of contemporary U. S., according to Author Merz. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, the changing frontier provided a healthy outlet for this up-and-going urge. But today the frontier has disappeared, the Indians are in sideshows or oil fields, the cowboys are in dude ranches or vaudeville. What does Mr. Average Citizen do to relieve his tension? He goes exploring in his automobile, knowing perfectly well that he will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy...
...building will contain a complete collection of the writings of Royce as a perpetual reminder of his thought and spirit and the fullest means of access to them...
...portrayal is incorrect is beside the point, for the reports of the Germans themselves fail to concur. But the fact remains that the subject was banned from England as unfit for reproduction on the screen, since it might be provocative of feeling not in accord with a spirit of pacification...