Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, who has been giving evidence in Paris, has been hailed in Berlin as "the miracle man" and great enthusiasm was entertained for the proposed gold bank...
India. To the forces of non-cooperation and other parties of a turbulent revolutionary nature in India, the advent of Laborism in Britain was looked forward to with undisguised enthusiasm. The letter which Mr. Macdonald sent to India three weeks before he became Premier and which he has recently had published did nothing to reassure them. The letter said revolutionary movements which break contact with the past invariably have to pick them up again. "I can see no hope in India," he said, "if it becomes the arena of a struggle between constitutionalism, and revolution. No party in Great Britain...
...rather difficult to comment on Mr. Vanderlip's interesting statement that college journalism is the best extra-curriculum activity, except to point out that in his enthusiasm he has perhaps forgotten some of its drawbacks. For it must of necessity lag behind parchesi in the development of fighting qualities, and its training is apt to make a young man totally unfit to write triolets or sing to anything but a bassoon. Perhaps the only thing an undergraduate does learn from it is not to take himself seriously for he has great opportunity to see how flippantly everyone else takes...
Despite his enthusiasm for the Advocate's contest, however, Mr. King offered no epithet with which to brand the "Anti-scofflaw...
...York Herald, on events of the preceding eve- ning. According to McGeehan, Siki strolled into the Baltimore Hotel, Memphis, where Norfolk was sitting with a black girl. Siki advanced to pay his respects. Unhappily, Norfolk, ignorant of French, assumed insult. He stared at Siki with all the enthusiasm of the cold and clammy blackness of a coal mine. Siki started fighting on the spot. McGeehan deplored Siki's amateur attitude in this unbusinesslike proceeding. Said he: "If Siki goes around the country fighting for nothing, one shudders to think what will become of the great cauliflower industry...