Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phipps St. Burying Ground" possesses, crowning the knoll and attracting visitors up the single path, Harvard Ave., to investigate the name of the claimant to such relative magnificence. Every Memorial Day witnesses the press of scores of people to the central eminence, whence they may enter into a spirit of the services held at the base of this monument. It is the subject of considerable surprise that the latter remains very meagerly decorated. Years ago, when a fence surrounded the spot, an occasional wreath was deposited within. One little old lady used to appear regularly and translate the Latin inscription...
...because of certain qualifications. The most important of these is sobriety. No officer in France must indulge in intoxicants. You will be subject to the most minute observation. Any officer who drinks will be immediately dismissed from the Service. . . . You must keep the temperament of the women and the spirit of the pilgrimage in mind. Many will be hysterical under the slightest provocation. You must be ready to meet any unusual condition. . . . You must exercise patience and forebearance and you must possess a sense of humor. If you are not a diplomat now, you will...
...cognac is a spirit, not a wine, and as Barthe pointed out, the internationally great French scientist Pasteur (inventor of milk pasteurization) said definitively: "Wine is the most healthy and hygienic ot beverages...
...voice of Dr. Pierce was lifted as soon as he heard of the incident. It took the form of a forthright but courteous open letter to Dr. Ainslie. Excerpts: "I cherish such high admiration for you personally and for your noble efforts to promote the spirit of religious unity that it grieves me to be compelled to differ from you. . . . In my judgment, you have insulted your country, insulted the churches of the U. S. and insulted en masse the chaplains of the Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start...
Magnificently gaunt last week was Stokowski's translation of Stravinsky's primitive, pornographic music - music which in its finale is tremendous enough truly to suggest an upheaval of the brutal earth. Lean, sallow Martha Graham did the sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that...