Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treaty with Italy is working to the satisfaction of both countries. Our relations with Germany developed during the past year in a spirit of understanding and mutual respect. We reaffirm our friendship with France and have good relations with our partners in the Little Entente [Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia & Rumania]. We have assumed no new obligations that would conflict with old ones. We have maintained all our alliances and gained new friends. We are surrounded now by friends...
...columnists. Even when, last fortnight, she reproved Dramatic Critics Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times and Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune for their blunt dismissal of Save Me the Waltz, a short-lived, Graustark-under-a-dictator romance, it was still in the spirit of loving the sunshine. Critics Atkinson and Watts, wrote Columnist Roosevelt, "seemed to infer that because this play does not teach a great lesson or pick any particular people to pieces, it is worthless as a play...
This Committee would have a representative from each field of concentration, who would be chosen with the advice of the Department chairman "on the basis of intellectual ability, . . . . with an eye towards his spirit of neutrality, and on the basis of a genuine interest in the problems of education...
...bulk of the story centers about the character of Granny Sartoris. She embodies the spirit of "The Unvanquished" older generation. Although a woman, she is responsible for the wellbeing of her community by some clever if shady dealings with Yankee officers. She manages to keep her own plantation and those of her neighbors well stocked with supplies, and the enemy is actually supporting them...
...grandson, Bayard, and his playmate, a negro boy, gradually progress from childhood into manhood, always under her influence and as-similating her valiant spirit and indomitable will. Ringo, the negro, is recognized almost on a level with Bayard, and in many ways he appears to be his superior. It is he on whom Granny Sarforis leans for support in the crucial moments. He is always in her confidence in her plots, while Bayard seems to act on his orders without knowing...