Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Andover, Exeter and other preparatory schools gave up the sport, the interest in gymnastic work has steadily waned. No plans have been made for a revival next year but the management has announced that as soon as sufficient enthusiasm is found, the team will be re-organized...
...FIRST FORTY YEARS?Herbert S. Gorman?Huebsch ($2.00). A critique of the "most-talked-about man in modern letters" by an admirer who has abandoned the usual claptrap for eloquent and intelligent exposition. It is lucid and comprehensible. One need not necessarily be won over to Mr. Gorman's enthusiasm for Ulysses in order to pay tribute to the competence of this book...
...hall in Vienna was packed to overflowing; tears came to the performers' eyes as the music started; the performance was frequently interrupted by thunders of the applause. But Beethoven himself heard nothing. He was 'deaf. It was not until his friend Unger wheeled him around that he saw the enthusiasm of the audience...
...SHOW-OFF?A full bodied portrait of the man who is an addict to self-exploitation, whose enthusiasm for himself remains undampened by a sparkling shower-bath of satire...
...often that the announcement of a new appointment to the faculty of the University arouses much enthusiasm in the undergraduate mind. Instructors come, lecture for their allotted space, and then, so far as most of their students are concerned, completely disappear into the limbo of lost things and forgotten personalities, leaving little behind them but battalions of dead blue books and seeds of thought cast on barren ground...