Word: spirt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...melodrama, but she conducts herself as regards her dilemma with the primitiveness of a Sherwood Anderson creation, not only challenging the world but challenging it with a barbaric splendor. Likewise with the tone of the entire book; its actual period is the nineties of the last century but its spirt and menner are those of the most militant modernists. If Miss Sinclair could have subdued her intensely feminine treatment in the interests of a better rounded and more sympathetic whole she would have a finer piece of work. As it is she has adorned some rather threadbare themes and situations...
...practitioners are vowed to poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded as a happy taken of the increase of spirituality in our universities. It would be a mistake to think of it as a concession to the spirit of materialism, to which these mighty stadium-cathedrals...
Whether or no the limerick is to be Gased among the accepted forms of verse it seem of appeal ot at least a spirt of the reading public as is indicated by the republication of Florence H. Garliner's "The smiile on the Face of the Tiger under the new title of "Limstricks...