Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voice when America entered the War,* Shoemaker screamed his opposition: ''It's a rich man's war and a poor man's fight.'' Returning from a fishing trip that summer, Shoemaker stopped one night at a dance hall which reeked of Wartime spirit. Bunting and flags aroused his ire to such an extent that he refused to stand up when "The Star-spangled Banner" was played. The crowd, observing the lone sitter, moved toward him in mass formation, growling, ugly, threatening...
...program with the result that the 1933 cotton crop was even larger than that for 1932. To force crop cuts Senator John Hollis Bankhead and Representative William B. Bankhead persuaded the Administration to endorse their measure to tax surplus production out of existence rather than to try to spirit it off the market with cash. Last month the House passed (251-to-115) the bill to assign each planter a bale quota based on his past production and then tax him 50% of the market value of each bale ginned in excess of that quota. Prime purpose of the legislation...
...molasses. Because of this fact it is also the most expensive of West Indian rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen to produce a cheaper spirit for export, good enough in quality to compete with the "vulgar" rums of Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, low enough in price to slide over U. S. tariff walls...
Said Messenger Parker: "I knowed dem banjo heads wuzn't representin' de true spirit of de University an' I was provoked an' wore out wid de way dey wuz actin'. ... He didn't tech me, no indeedy, fuh you see I has de body motion an' weaved...
...fact that partisans can still listen to the voice of reason and that the Government is still the master of the spirit of fair play is heartening in these days of conversation about economic and physical force and revolution. The American way of sitting around the table and respecting each other's conviction has really been triumphant. For what we are witnessing is one of those progressive steps so often misunderstood but best described in Woodrow Wilson's phrase: "Pence without Victory...