Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Foreign Office took charge of all details. M. Barthou, who crossed the channel for a personal conference with Sir John, ostentatiously returned last week to Paris. British public opinion was prepared for what was coming by a few intimations that what Europe needs is a return to "the Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged...
...Traitors must be put up against the wall and shot!" roared Leader Forster. "Here in this German outpost we shall forever uphold the Hitler spirit. We believe in Germany! We believe in Hitler...
...labor trouble, see Red at every labor agitation. Some of them hate labor unions with the hate their trail-blazing fathers had for Indians on the warpath. And they do not flinch from rough & tumble with their enemies. Labor, too, has still something of the, devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber camps...
...given her by President Hoover in 1929. But modest Mme Curie always turned away from such honors, such gifts. At her bedside last week were her daughters-Eve, the musician, Irene the scientist who worked with her husband in better quarters but in much the same spirit as Pierre and Marie Curie a generation before them. Mme Curie had lived long enough to see Irene honored as co-discoverer of a phenomenon that excited physicists the world over, artificial radio-activity (TIME...
...days later, he was a really great man at last. Side by side with this main narrative- the lifelong duel between Hallem who wanted to die and Roiter who was determined to live-are the hardly less moving stories of Hallem's sons, inheritors of his bitter spirit, of his wife, whom he alternately loved and hated, of Roiter's wife and children, many another minor but well-indicated character. Well and truly translated,- Duel does not read like a translation, has none of the queer woodenness of a foreign book...