Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes. That did not impede energetic Mrs. Pinchot's activities in his behalf, as last week's sleigh ride testified. She has always been willing to dramatize the Governor's social welfare programs by picketing, speechmaking, visiting the slums. These activities, undertaken in a thoroughly genuine spirit, have resulted in considerable unpopularity for the couple among their own social set, but have created a large following among the poor...
...Literal translation of the first two verses: With banner high and ranks firmly closed The shock troops march with steady stride. Our comrades, shot by Red Front and Reaction March in spirit in our ranks. Clear the street for the brown battalions Clear the street for the shock troops! Already hopeful millions look to the swastika; The day of Freedom and of Bread is dawning...
...membership in the Federal Council of Churches. Also it was proposed that local Y. W. C. A.'s be released from affirming in their constitutions "the Christian faith in God, the Father; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord and Savior; and in the Holy Spirit...
...department, with a first-rate mind.'' Says Critic Craven of this Missouri artist: "To the conservatives he is a Red; to the radicals he is a Chauvinist. His art is too specifically real, too deeply impregnated with what I shall risk calling the Collective American Spirit to touch the purists, Methodists and doctrinaries. . . . Benton's art, apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone...
Galleryites who have tired of the French and their U. S. imitators will welcome his assurance that the "snob spirit" which made native painters "ashamed of their heritage and environment" is passing, will be inclined to agree with his prophecy of the return of representationalism...