Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever-present charm and vigor and enthusiasm endeared...
...scouting the notion that there is the slightest connection between musical scores and political treaties, Beethoven in Valhalla might have forgotten something about Beethoven in Vienna. Perhaps during the celebration the capital of France will hear a certain symphony once dedicated to the Emperor of the French. Swept by enthusiasm for the ideals of the French revolution and its battlecrles of fraternity and equality for all, the composer saw in Bonaparte the militant Messiah who with sword in hand was advancing to do battle with the foul breathed dragon of oppression. When instead of striking off the fetters of Europe...
...Fire Brigade (Charles Ray, May McAvoy). Lest that drab day come when Young America shall cease to begin life with fire-fighting aspirations, Director Nigh provides the public with a picture well calculated to arouse boyish enthusiasm. The hero is a fireman who not only rescues women and children from the flames, but fearlessly announces to the heroine's papa, corrupt politician, that it is unethical to build firetraps. Charles Ray is the young man with brass buttons, tin hat; and May McAvoy, as the pleasing heroine, marries him in a smoky fadeout, while Boy Scouts in the audience...
Amid general enthusiasm the Budget Committee then announced that they favored the Marshal's proposal to spend one-third of the revenues of the State on the army. The pleasure of the Deputies at Marshal Pilsudski's bid for their support was evident. The magnetism of his personality sufficed to overcome their resentment at such actions on his part as his sending (TiME, Nov. 15) a detachment of soldiers to march 'round and 'round the Parliament Building to prove his supremacy. As dawn broke upon last week's midnight meeting enough Deputies had collected...
...next June, will be featured by an entirely new arrangement of the hall choruses, according to Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Harvard Glee Club, Heretofore the halls, have each had their respective choruses. which practiced once a week during the three months before the Jubilee. As enthusiasm for these choruses has been decreasing each year, they have not been well attended of late...