Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time the bust had been accepted Dr. Stresemann's cigar had burned to a well-mouthed stump and he discovered that he possessed no other cigars. Foreign Minister Briand of France, resourceful, smilingly proffered a packet of French cigarets from which Dr. Stresemann selected one without enthusiasm. Upon this tableau of Franco-German concord Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain of Britain (as lean as M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann are fat) cast a thin but approving smile...
...more than the unofficial laureate of the Army he could never have been. At Laureate Tennyson's death in 1892, Mr. Kipling was a crusty young gazetteer from Lahore, just beginning to capture a world-wide audience of greater enthusiasm than discrimination. And when a successor to harmless old Alfred Austin was needed in 1913, Poet Kipling was already an anachronism. Moreover, the one sorry "bloomer" that Laureate Austin had committed-a headlong paean to celebrate the Jameson Raid in South Africa (1896)-was directly traceable to the Kipling virus...
...rebel against the Divine Will that bids amorous romance vanish soon after marriage. They decide to live in the illusion that they are really in love. It may be only "throwing bean bags at the Gods" but it will be a righteous gesture against divine tyranny. In their common enthusiasm for the game, they find that the spark of their former love is rekindled. The sour grapes are within reach-and sweet. The trouble with the play is that so much of this is expressed in dialog, so little in incident. Still, the dialog is crisp, frequently eloquent; the play...
...audiences abroad have deteriorated in quality. The cultured classes, which formed the backbone of the pre-War musical public, have but little money at present for concerts or opera. The rather nondescript audiences of today seem to lack the discrimination which, combined with warm enthusiasm for really fine things, formerly lent such an ideal atmosphere to musical performances abroad. "It is sad-immeasurably...
Peace. Soon after his retirement, Dr. Eliot was asked by President Taft to go as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. The press bubbled with enthusiasm. "A typical citizen," people said, "our first citizen." Dr. Eliot excused himself, but sailed around the world two years later as envoy of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...