Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascist press kept up a steady barrage of comment favorable to paunchy King Fuad, and whenever he rode out crowds of Fascisti displayed loud enthusiasm...
Britons are justly proud of four young princes who can perform so monotonous a ritual with such constant enthusiasm and éclat. When the Duke of York recently returned from Australia, for example, his bachelor brothers, Edward of Wales, Prince Henry and Prince George were not only on the dock to meet him (see cover), but they carried swords three feet long and wore uniforms in shrewdly calculated contrast...
...Count Tolstoi's enthusiasm even led him to predict that airplane flights from west to east would be more successful, as in the recent past, than east-west flights. He recommended great west-east pilgrimages to improve the health and general well-being of all mankind...
...real wonder is the height to which American enthusiasm can toss a man from the very tip and foam of its intermost wave and, likewise, the abysmal depth of the trough into which it can forthwith plunge him. There have been newly-elected presidents: and there have been x-presidents. There are heros of the hour and there are men, and women too, who have had their famous moments. Fickle and feverish attention is the vice of a child. There is much material for the sociologist in the childishness of the American public. The tabloids have exploited it professionally. Walter...
...jaded, world-traveled Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times who thus described last week with sly enthusiasm the notorious Madame Borodin, wife of the Soviet Russian emissary to Chinese Communists, Michael Borodin. When Mme. Borodin was captured by Chinese anti-Communist troops near Shanghai (TIME, March 21), many a non-Communist thought, "Serves her right!" What sort of treatment has Mme. Borodin received? She told last week in the bare, white-walled waiting-room of a prison at Peking...