Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, who might have had some misgivings over Mussolini's enthusiasm for the League after the Corfu Incident (TIME, Sept. 10 to Oct. 8), was reassured by visiting the " black-shirted pacifist" in the Eternal City. Premier Mussolini assured Sir Eric that Italy had no prejudice against the League, Italy only desired that its position on the League should be adequately established within the organization through which the League functions. By explaining that only five out of 300 of the League's personnel on the Secretariat were Italian, the Rome...
...songs and dances. The voices are powerful but rather inclined to bolt and run away among the gallery rafters. But even rags for costumes, a popular song for a plot, and a phonograph for music would be overlooked in view of the dancing and the vast enthusiasm of the players. Never before has so much energy been concentrated on a single stage. A congress of oriental dervishes would seem static in comparison. In addition, the stars, Miller and Lyles, are boisterously competent comedians. The production is on a par with that sire of colored shows, Shuffle Along...
...single concert has now roused the critics to unprecedented enthusiasm, for his setting of the Psalms is tempestuous, passionate and far removed from the character of his earlier work, such as the famous Stabat Mater, which the Vatican choir is now giving to Americans. The soprano part has almost insuperable difficulties...
John Corbin: "The audience rose with a spontaneity and intensity of enthusiasm which have seldom been surpassed in our theatre...
...goal-posts. Such at least was the general impression up to last Saturday. And perhaps it is too early to say definitely that Harvard found itself in the game against Tufts; there was nothing that roused the team or the stands to that wild, almost superhuman enthusiasm, of the kind, for example, displayed against Penn State in 1921. But there was a new power, there were occasional flashes of billiance particularly in the last period when Harvard kept bombarding the Tufts goal line, and there is new hope...