Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate against his inaction, and not a Democratic Senator voted against his anti-Sit-Down resolution last fortnight. Where there was this kind of public smoke, issuing even from Administration leaders, there was no lack of private fire, its flames still hidden but its sparks feeding inwardly on a spirit of dissatisfaction and antagonism. Franklin Roosevelt may have sensed this the evening he attended the spring Gridiron Club dinner, given by Washington's newshawks. First he was caricatured as Don Quixote exclaiming to Sancho Panza Garner: "Seest thou not yon fortress of privilege, yon castle of finance?" ("Them...
...think it is clear that the National Labor Relations Act may be construed so as to operate within the spirit of constitutional authority. . . . "Employes have as clear a right to organize and select their representatives for lawful purposes as the respondent [Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.] has to organize its business and select its own officers and agents. "Discrimination and coercion to prevent the free exercise of the right of employes to self-organization and representation is a proper subject for condemnation by competent legislative authority...
...himself of an unselfish move and pushed the ball into the unsuspecting arms of a teammate. Before the latter had taken two steps, and before he could get ahead of him, he shouted, "Pass it back, pass it back," in an officious tone that intimated the lack of team spirit on his fellow player's part...
Jaakko made no statement as to the potentialities of the Varsity for this spring, but expressed his satisfaction at the spirit showed by the unusually large number that practiced during vacation. Captain Bill Schmidt led the reporting veterans who included such notables as Al Northrop and Henry Marey, distance...
...with all the warmth and tenderness the author possesses. These last tragic scenes, when the ready realizes Bashkirtseff herself is doomed, stand out in striking contrast to the earlier, more lively moments of her childhood. Not only does the author capture the mood of her subject, but the very spirit of the times--the seventies in the continental capitals, Rome, Paris, Naples, and the rest. From life on the picturesque Riviera of the last Nineteenth Centry with its lazy and peaceful atmosphere we are wafted to the sordid dampness and depression of artists' studios on the Rive Gauche, with their...