Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier stated in the House of Commons that Mr. Justice Feetham, member of the South African Supreme Court, had, with the full approval of the Government of South Africa, been appointed Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission (TIME, May 5). This news was not greeted with enthusiasm by the North (Ulster). The Free State expressed its pleasure at the appointment but its displeasure at the delay which would be caused in awaiting the arrival of the Chairman. The appointment of Sir Adrian Knox, Chief Justice of Australia, to a committee of the Privy Council was also announced. Sir Adrian...
...Marchand, were greeted on the station platform by Premier Kiyoura, Foreign Minister Baron Matsui and numerous Government and diplomatic politicians of note. Baroness Matsui presented a large bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Woods. Thousands of Japanese made the station tremble with their "banzais" and at one period the enthusiasm of the crowd was such that they broke the police cordons. It was a magnificent, friendly sendoff...
...broken. The cup, which is awarded each spring by the Track Advisory Committee, is given for a period of one year to the man who, in the opinion of the coaches and the Committee, "shows the greatest improvement in the pole vault as a result of hard work, perseverance, enthusiasm, and courageous spirit--qualities so characteristic of Haydock...
...splendid attributes of Mr. Hughes, and, in the course of his supplementary speech on May 8, while regretting his inability to grant the President's request for an extension of time in which to negotiate abrogation of the agreement with Japan, did not he say, with courtliness approaching enthusiasm, of Mr. Coolidge...
...lack of ancient prestige: M. Leon Daudet called upon his twenty thousand associates to begin a royalist revolution "tonight, from this moment, from the gate of Paris." Possibly the Duc d'Orleans, nominal King of France, who is now residing in England is not aware of this enthusiasm, for he has not yet crossed the Channel to claim his throne...