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Word: enthusiasm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Governor Fuller heard about it, he explained to Representative Treadway: "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters. I must tell him to restrain his boyish enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minor Jobs | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...with the New York Symphony. Press notices quoted in his own biography name him an artist of "graceful style which he is able to suit to many different moods." Writer Saleski can make no such claim. His sketches are cut and dried, peppered sparsely with long-familiar anecdotes. His enthusiasm for every Jew has robbed him of his discrimination, defeated his own humble purpose of segregating them. Superlatives are plentiful as periods. Elman, for instance, "alone can produce that broad, wholesome, spiritual tone which is characteristic of his playing and is so representative of the spirit dominating the long-suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jews | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Everyone recognizes that Lindy's flight has instilled greater enthusiasm in aviation than any other single thing, therefore nothing could be more fitting than to designate the week May 20-26 as his week. EVAN W. OST Kenosha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...usual near any peak of stock market enthusiasm, an oracle of immense prestige dramatically crowed at the precise moment when the market needed a cheery word to carry it into still higher price area. In July 1926, Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner, was interviewed the midnight he sailed for Europe. He was said to have said that General Motors "should.and will" go 100 points higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Public Invited | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...must first of all throw its gauntlet into the arena in opposition to such a rival as Governor Fuller. For it seems that both Massachusetts in general and Boston in particular have social designs on the Army cadets when they invade the East to display their vocal enthusiasm in the Harvard stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARCHING MEN | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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