Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not have the members of your committee for a moment to think that this protest is motivated by a spirit of retaliation, that I am unduly peeved and aggrieved at an injustice or an affront done me personally. To make objection to confirmation upon that unsound basis would be unworthy of a United States Senator...
Britons who have "only political minds" or are "lacking the dedicated Black Shirt spirit," Sir Oswald announced, can belong to the great second rank of his party. "This organization," said Sir Oswald, "will be to create propaganda machinery and assist in electioneering. It will work parallel with the dedicated Black Shirts who will use it for Fascism...
...though his artistic taste was catholic, he was never the more dilettante or amateur: he brought to the criticism of art a precision of perception that made his judgments always worthy of consideration, even when they seemed to one to be wrong. For he was imbued with the scientific spirit: the search for right reason before authority...
...proctors have exhumed their traditional cerecloth, and swathed in mortuary folds, are softly pacing the unburied ranks in the Gymnasium. The mysterious tutelary spirit (gaunt spectre of the undergraduate) has emerged from his hibernation and once more tolls the bell and once more makes unintelligible unanimity all the sparrows of the city have abandoned the open spaces and are now chirping and wrangling in their peculiar manner over the gloomy aisles. It is significant that none of the sparrows has ever been found in the Gymnasium except during the periods of inquisition. They are doubtless imported for the occasion...
...demand that a cinema which purports to treat a historical theme should be judged according to the fidelity with which it cleaves to the factual skeleton of the past has long been abandoned. When there is no real assurance that deep and erudite works of scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives a ball...