Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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General Nolen, who will speak on "The Spirit of the A. E. F.", is at present at the Army War College in charge of instruction in military intelligence work with a peace-time rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During the war, as the head of the military intelligence service in the A. E. F., he did signal service in organizing and conducting this department. It was due chiefly to his efforts and those of Colonel Arthur L. Conger '94 that the Military Intelligence Department attained such a high grade of efficiency during the war. General Mangin, of the French Army...
...fickle goddess. For our natures are fearfully and wonderfully made. But more fearfully than wonderfully. Just two years ago, many other-wise sane Americans were employing valuable time which they could have wasted better elsewhere--inventing epigrams! These related to a (with reservations) gentlemen from Amerongen. Their delicate spirit was imbued in such phrases as "Kan the Krazy Kaiser." And at the same time, several million doughboys were promising their Dulcineas a piece of that personage's ear, or a curl from his right moustache. Apparently oblivious of the blissful fact that the "glorious leadership" of this man was worth...
...biography of Theodore Roosevelt by one whose deep love and respect for the great American give his little volume an exalted spirit...
Only if it really makes a difference to the students whom they elect may we hope for more interest in the election. We may be sure that that intangible thing called "class spirit," which seems as obsolete as the dinosaurs, will not bring voters to the polls...
...production is the dancing. There is enough of it in the two acts to supply three ordinary musical shows and make any one a Droadway success. Seldom is it the privilege of a Boston audience to witness such a graceful exhibition as that givenly Miss Francesca Braggiotti in her "Spirit of the Nile" dance, and again, accompanied by her sister, in the tango in the second act. The "Waitress Dance," beautifully done by a chorus of ten, is the best bit of group dancing in the play. Then there is a performance by an "Octette" which makes the "Flonaltra" Sextet...