Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...titles of cases to be heard by a newly-summoned panel. Cited for contempt of court, chunky, mustached Editor Walter Morrow was last week fined $50. Between Judge Wanamaker and Editor Morrow there was no feud, but an understanding that the case would be appealed immediately to make the spirit & letter of the law jibe once...
...these really the people who made the revolution? No; they are the people who profit by it. ... Remember that this moulding of the spirit begins in earliest infancy. . . . What is important here is to persuade people that they are as well off as they can be until a better time comes; to persuade them that elsewhere people are worse off. The only way of achieving this is carefully to prevent any communication with the outside world...
...federal system receives an endorsement from the members of the convention in preference to a motion that the body go on record as favoring a unitary system of government. It was resolved that the federal system was 'more in keeping with the spirit and political philosophy of the American people." Discussion today, however, will decide whether the federal system should be composed of the present 48 states or whether a smaller number of administrative units might not be possible...
...other moving spirit of Babes In Arms had no previous theatrical experience whatever, which is evidently something of an asset since most of her colleagues are professional youngsters inclined to make up with mugging what they lack in poise. She is Wynn Murray and hails from the church choirs of Scranton, Pa. Miss Murray is the Kate Smith type, weighs some 150 lb. and, well into Act I, is the first one to get Babes In Arms off the ground when, with a pleasantly sophisticated manner, she croons of her home Way Out West On West End Avenue...
Although this early victory gives promise of a bright season to come, it must be borne in mind that sports, like stock exchange graphs, have their up and downs. But if the crew continues to show the spirit that has marked its progress in the last twelve months, the prospects for the festivities at New London look exceptionally happy...