Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rated as one of the most popular games being played in England. Perhaps the fact that the Prince of Wales is a devotee is partly responsible for the huge attendances at the twelve tournaments which are held annually in England. And women have accepted the sport with an enthusiasm which women rarely evidence in person al athletics...
This wide and deep enthusiasm for the Diary inevitably brings to public attention Count Keyserling's new book,* which, unfortunately, is about one-tenth as readable. In it, the state of wedlock has been treated as a musical theme is treated to turn it into a symphony. Count Keyserling is the conductor. To the woodwinds of psychoanalysis, the percussives of aristocracy, the bass viols of biology, the brass of anthropology, the muted strings of art and mysticism, are assigned various parts. The players include-besides several German savants little known in the U. S. -Havelock Ellis, Rabindranath Tagore...
...Usually, the Chinese countryside has no enthusiasm for the 'cause' of any army. The provincial war-lords carry on their operations at the expense of and therefore in spite of the people, and with the notable exception of Feng's Christian Army, never with their willing support. In Canton, during my three weeks' visit, things were very different. Parades, mass-meetings, continual rounds of demonstration revealed the interest of the city population in the approaching expedition against the North. Members of the labor unions and the Hongkong strikers volunteered for service with the army. The merchants and people of Canton...
From Yale, in 1897, a brilliant youth of 20 was graduated. Of prosperous and socially impeccable Manhattan parentage, he did not forsake his youthful religious enthusiasm, but committed himself at once to the ministry. He was urbane, witty, talkative, diplomatic -even then having something of the Giorgione monk in his deep eyes and strange eyebrows. A gypsy, for less than a quarter, might easily have predicted for him an easy path to a Manhattan bishopric. But the gypsy could not have guessed how passionately Presbyterian he is -this modern liberal; and the radical honesty of the man would sooner lead...
Captain J. M. Anderson of Station 14 greeted a CRIMSON reporter yesterday without a great deal of enthusiasm...