Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champion has been lecturing in this country since the beginning of October throughout universities and colleges of the middle west the south, and the far west of the country be has been greed with great enthusiasm. During his coming sojourn in this vicinity, M. Champion will also give addresses before the Solon Francaise, the Alliance Francaise, and the Wellesley College Student body...
...more Aphroditian sphere, as a young man, indifferent. Masculine naiveté differs from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...
...York Yale Club, was born in London and went to Harrow, but lost no time thereafter in returning to his parents' homeland, where he was graduated by Yale in 1910. He has embraced literature and yachting ever since, is unmarried and free to spend himself upon a third enthusiasm, his society at Alma Mater, the Elihu Club. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares, is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. For writing Cordelia Chantrell he evidently added to his historical method a study of fine prose and much thought...
...some fan-shaped, green New England shutters on p. 408. The collection of cobblestones, sealskin sacques, decalcomanias, bustles, buggies, political platforms and gimcrack customs, all echoing to the tinkle of bicycle bells and chandeliers, is truly remarkable. In fact, it is so remarkable that the exhibitors' enthusiasm made them somewhat forget their narrative obligations. The ingenuous characters are gently regarded as being almost as odd today as were (allegedly) grapefruit and golf to oldtime Chicago...
...merely a new club, nor is it a school revolution, but it is a reaction against those whose bywords are 'serenity, prosperity, and propriety'. It is not a simple reform of life that is sought, but an intuitive mystical vision, a more humane feeling, accompanied by greater enthusiasm, ideals, and a richer and more beautiful life...