Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addressed a State American Legion convention at Wichita on Labor Day. declared: "I believe we can do much by intelligent legislation to lessen the danger of being drawn into a war with which we have no real concern. But after all the Spirit of America must be our main reliance in staying out of war. . . . We must keep our heads...
...really gorgeous exhortation. It is filled with quotable sentences. The next edition of Bartlett's book of quotations may have several lines from this Philadelphia speech. As for instance, This generation has a rendezvous with destiny or Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference...
...Locarno Room, where the "Spirit of Locarno" was distilled into a pact which was to have made France and Germany friends (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), the new treaty was hailed by Foreign Secretary Eden as "a symbol of freely agreed partnership between the British and Egyptian peoples...
Divine has organized a "Righteous Government Movement" with a political platform demanding that doctors guarantee cures, "Peace" be substituted for "Hello" as a telephone salutation, life insurance be abolished. Father Divine habitually ends his letters: "This leaves ME Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, vein and bone and even in every atom, fiber and cell of MY bodily form...
Gossip. Even a Hollywood Gossip, Hearst's Louella 0. Parsons, landed herself in the big radio money two years ago as guiding spirit of Campbell Soup's "Hol-lywood Hotel." Beside this weekly program, the soup-makers present an annual Yuletide broadcast in which Actor Lionel Barrymore (fora reputed $1,250) wheezes, growls, grunts and snuffles his way through the part of Scrooge in a dramatization of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Last week's "Hollywood Hotel" offered an adaption of Dadsworth with Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton. Next week: Norma Shearer as Juliet, to a radio Romeo...