Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also have a heart and my heart is with the welfare of my people. . . . Don't cram this bill down our throats, Mr. Commissioner. Rides-at-the-Door (Blackfeet) : If what is told us is true, this is the Indians' salvation. Let us call on the Great Spirit to make it so. J. P. Morgan (Navajo): Mr. Collier says it has taken the lawyers in Washington months and months to frame this bill. Well, it will take us Navajos months and months to understand it. For once the redmen's objections were heeded. Out of the bill...
...issue promptly became Paragraph 24 of the Nazi Constitution which explicitly makes Christianity the religion of Brownshirts. This was disposed of amid roars of ap proval when Keynoter Gericke cried : "Paragraph 24 is something for our Party itself to interpret ! . . . We will go further entirely in the Nazi spirit!" The way to un-Jew the Bible, a majority of Nazi speakers made plain, is to reject the dogma of sin and, from this, reject the concept of a Messiah dying for the sins of others. In a spirit of Nazi compromise it was agreed that "the saintly individuality of Christ...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell: For twenty-four years our resolute captain who enlarged and deepened the life of this University and preserved untainted the vitalizing spirit of liberty...
...What the school has accomplished in less than two years was demonstrated one night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane and tin to represent the dynamos, switches, flywheels and pistons which young Soviet Composer Alexander Mossolov had in mind when he wrote...
...trades, "a man who had sailed the seven seas and who was rags both inside and out ... a man of splendid virtues and brazen faults." Old now, and temporarily a useful citizen because he has no money in his pocket. Hamsun's epitome of the modern spirit turns up at the little Norwegian coastal town of Segelfoss, rapidly makes a place for himself as an indispensable handyman. With his helpful hand and his experienced advice, the young magnate of Segelfoss becomes more & more important and successful...