Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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History records few deaths more agonizing, few martyrdoms more prolonged. In all the slow weeks there was no evidence of weakening, no abatement of the first resolve. Now that it is all ended and he lies with former comrades in the "Republican Plot," the world may well stand in spirit as those British soldiers stood...
George Whiting and Gadie Burt are the headliners at Keith's this week, in a miniature operetta entitled "Little Miss Melody." This musical sketch alternates song and dance numbers with good effect: the nine members of the company, impersonating the spirit of Jazz, Harmony, Melody, and other characteristics of tune, succeed in keeping the audience continually interested. The costumes and scenery are more than usually elaborate...
...having read the essay I do not know whether the author goes on to establish in us Americans a more active quality which might be called the generous spirit, but 8,000,000 automobiles rolling on specially constructed automobile roads in our country (as against less than 1,000,000 in the rest of the world) leave no doubt that we have it toward ourselves...
Therefore, there is no need to teach the Harvard students sportsmanship by overdoing the applause to the visiting teams and by showing a mean spirit towards Harvard. --Boston American...
...become evident that the alumni return to Cambridge in increasing numbers each year for the leading football game, either Princeton or Yale, and there has been more and more of a demand for an opportunity of renewing the class spirit and closing ranks at this time...