Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone has called the Kellogg Peace Pact dead as a dodo. Signed in August at Paris with a pen of gold, welcomed with reservations by governments and with enthusiasm by peoples, it has been killed by the appearance in increasing quantity of the details of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the notes which accompanied that. First--the secrecy attending the agreement; and latest--the unofficial official publication in the Echo de Paris on October 4 of a "summary, exact as possible" of the notes exchanged between the French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British...
...American public is an appreciative public", he replied when questioned as to the artistic enthusiasm of America, "but Americans do not seem to see any interest in the problems of invention in music...
Editors headlined Dr. Cadman as world's first "radio pastor." For the most part, this was religio-journalistic enthusiasm. As many a radiowner knows, Dr. Cadman preached from the Bedford (Brooklyn) branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoons, last year, over an 18-station web. And his new and exciting title of "radio pastor" further lost significance when it became known that Rabbi Wise also would preach, that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick & Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, able Manhattan divines, might soon be given microphonal pulpits by the National Broadcasting Co., sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches...
...announcement that the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry will be vacant during the third year of the endowment is unfortunate in view of the latitude of choice the foundation permits. The renascence of the provision of scholars who might arouse intellectual enthusiasm in undergraduates beyond the confines of tabulated courses, was such a happy one initiated by Gilbert Murray, and recalling the crowded lecture halls of James and Santayana, that its early lapse will be felt by those who knew its boons...
...labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans, who combine literary enthusiasm with active lives...