Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contingent became more and more aware of the immensity of the parade, its exuberance increased, until by the time Washington Street had been reached the enthusiasm seemed liable to overreach accepted bounds. The streets in this region were lined five and six deep with onlookers on both sidewalks. But not all were of the same allegiance as the marchers. Pictures of Alfred E. Smith were to be seen in abundance, and as many shrieks endorsed that name as that of the Republican candidate...
...partisanship of undergraduate newspapers reaches its climax in this double headed disavowal of campaign enthusiasm. Even the Democratic party of yore would find it hard to sanction such a magnificent conception of neutrality and the "kept us out of war" policy. Here at Harvard where the dry rot of indifference has left untouched a flourishing forest of undergraduate political interest, such an outburst of nalvole would have been the signal for indignant letters in numbers such as to clog the columns of the CRIMSON from now until election day. Admiration is due the courageous decision of the Yale debating team...
Following this prelude, Nominee Hoover stood up. The Garden became a noisy colloid of flags and enthusiasm. The Nominee was unable to do anything about it. He flapped his fingers a few times, and tried to smile...
With Laura Hope Crews in Olympia is famed Fay Compton, who has excited English enthusiasm since her 1911 debut in The Follies. Long ago, Fay Compton played the title rôle, which made Maude Adams famous here, in Peter Pan. Those actresses who are great in Barrie's plays, like those who excel in Shakespeare's, are a special type, often not successful elsewhere. Fay Compton is perhaps a Barrie actress but she has been cheered in many other sorts of plays. Since 1914, she has not played in the U. S.; then...
Quickly, they admitted Pioneers Ford, Schwab, Rosenwald, Eastman, Firestone and Speakers Swift, Taylor, Gifford, Mitchell and many another U. S. businessman to tycoonship. And with enthusiasm they claimed Honor Guest Lord Melchett as Foremost and Mightiest British Tycoon...