Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other engaging traits include a mild manner, great personal modesty, a disarming habit of coupling every declaration with the frank admission that "maybe I am wrong," and a 15-year-old spirit of disillusionment about the possibility of getting anything liberal done for the benefit of mankind. These traits are genuine and at the same time more or less deceptive. Gentle Mr. Norris is not above personalities in debate. Modest Mr. Norris talks as often as anyone in the Senate, and tries to have the last word on every issue. Mr. Norris, who "may be wrong," in nearly every fight...
...soon he was regularly introducing bills for Government-operation of Muscle Shoals. But during the 1920'$ the times were out of joint for insurgents and Mr. Norris was changing. The drooping mustache with which he went to Congress became short and bristling, then disappeared entirely. His fighting spirit gave way to an air of disillusionment and a touch of humor...
Next in importance after the British Constitutional Question, now safely answered in the United Kingdom, is the Indian Constitutional Question-the question whether the Indian people accept and enter into the spirit of the new Constitution enacted in 1935 by the Mother of Parliaments and sent to them from London, together with a most able new Viceroy, the banker Marquess of Linlithgow (TIME, Oct. 12 et ante). Last week George VI, new King & Emperor, labored chiefly over reports from his Indian Empire...
...hates her husband for his feebleness, his lack of health and spirit. In the end each has full revenge on the other from the ignominy of their mutual pity...
...such a remarkable degree that he has received the attention and praise both of the student body and of the contending teams and coaches. Harvard's re-entrance into the Eastern League in 1934 seemed to be just the spark necessary to start basketball on the upgrade; the squad spirit improved, and more and better men came to Fesler's hands...