Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hostess have settled a domestic tiff which also involved the drunkard's buxom spouse. These people are all members of the so-called "lost generation," and their varied plights are sincerely described even though the host and the writer continually hark back to their Wartime comradeship with enthusiasm of the "You old rhinoceros!" variety...
According to Mr. Hamblin, plans are now being made to build a bigger botanic garden somewhere else, as an outlet for the enthusiasm for gardening, and to divert feeling in the present situation. "Whether or not the Garden can be used for anything other than a botanic garden is for the proper officials to say," was his statement. "The public will soon center its interests on something else...
Today the coonskin of Dartmouth takes the place in the Stadium of the blue-grey ranks of the Army. The stiffness of ordered regimentation characteristic of the military gives way to the informal enthusiasm of a college released on one of its biggest holidays. One doesn't have to make an effort to welcome Dartmouth to the Yard; her students are not honored guests who are to be greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside...
...despite the enthusiasm and gusto with which the employment contingent consumed the choice tid bits, the game ended and the crowd dispersed leaving--alas, five hundred and four sandwiches...
Lawyer Weatherby is forlorn and frustrated until one evening when Miss Cowl strolls into his living room as Jenny Valentine, a famed actress. She immediately perceives that, despite his greying hair and prowess at the bar, he is a small boy beset by vultures. Sharing his enthusiasm for roses and stamp-collecting, she wins his confidence, lures him away to her camp in the hills, where, after a great deal of coy urgency on her part, he consents to stay...