Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared in recent times in which the chorus was not clad as if about to step into the shower. It is an actual although astounding fact that tights are being worn in this production, and judging from the box office receipts, this unusual procedure is being received with enthusiasm. Clothed figures dancing on the stage appear so grotesque, so hyper-sophisticated that the novelty of the sight has won the patronage of the entire smart set. It is but a matter of time until Ziegfield will be glorifying the American girl as she has never been glorified before; that...
...flask (for medicinal purposes) in his White House office desk, and Coolidge, dry as a Vermont tinder box but deficient in the hot crusading flame of the true prohibitor. Now-bless the day-had come a President in whom for years has been seen a steady, scientific glow of enthusiasm for social uplift...
Discretion got the upper hand over his enthusiasm before it was too late to catch the last train back to Boston, and the evening was spent quietly reading a South Sea island story in his suite in the tower of Memorial Hall. So the annual fever has come and gone and left only a few bruises and the regret that he had not had the sense to buy earmuffs...
...been copyrighted in the brain and heart of Yost. President Little, doubtless, "took several ideas to Michigan," but the only idea concerning athletics at Michigan which can rightfully be claimed by Little is the woefully impractical and weak idea of the University having two football teams. Some real enthusiasm might have been engendered had the Big Ten Universities all put Freshmen football teams into contest with each other (since Freshmen cannot play upon the regular teams), but to expect a Michigan "B" team to create much interest when playing some other university's "B" team is, as was proven...
Royal Family. The enthusiasm of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania for her son-in-law King Alexander is well known. Her Majesty has said...