Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph recently visited the Fogg collection and the new museum, and expressed great enthusiasm for the interest taken and strides being made in the Department of Fine Arts...
Whether these changes will attract or repel the paying customer, whose enthusiasm may have been slightly dampened by recent exposition and interment of "scandals," is subject for heated discussion in circles where subjects are scarce. They are sure, however, to stimulate sale of scorecards "giving names of players and c'reck batting order...
...premiere in Chicago last week. Through many an irritating postponement the public had waited anxiously. Mary Garden had promised an opera that would make her Salome look like puss-in-the-corner. As Judith, the Biblical girl,* Miss Garden sang magnificently. The critics however, did not share her enthusiasm for the opera or for Arthur Honegger's music. It tended to leap from vigorous stimulation into dissonance-reflecting the modernistic trend...
...rocket choir' of Princeton, 'Rah! Rah! Rah! Ss!-boom-ah!' probably ranks next in point of interest. It sprang up as the result of athletic enthusiasm, first venting itself over some triumph. It certainly is very original and striking...
...schoolteachers of Oregon, in convention at Portland, sat back in their chairs full of warmth, enthusiasm and expectancy. They had been discussing their moral obligation to society. They had decided that it was incumbent upon them to furnish future citizens with "internal control" now that those declining agencies, the home and the church were no longer effective and now that society was abandoning "external control." The teachers of Oregon were feeling the full unction of their mission-and were now waiting to be addressed by that great champion of public education, the ousted president of the university of the great...