Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloodless generalities a publicist has to make friends. Friend of Eugene Field, friend of bees and bootblacks, bovines and businessmen, icemen and janitors, iris and blue jays, "David Grayson" is almost always proof against his own sentimentalities. These essays on innocent recklessness in the making of friends reflect an enthusiasm that is as far from wallowing as from warping. They were written for private satisfaction; they should cause public delight...
...interests of student America. Like their great English rivals they served not only to supplement the work of the American colleges, but also to direct them, wherever possible, along higher paths of teaching. Oxford and Heidelberg were names of comparative importance. The lack of meticulous restraint, the scholarly enthusiasm, and the opportunity for intensive development in these universities was talked of with equal admiration by intellectual America...
...Nugent, the latter of whom, under her own name of Norma Lee, plays the leading feminine part opposite her husband, discussed with enthusiasm the work of depicting college life on the stage, as they sat at a late breakfast in the Hotel Bellevue. Patterson McNutt, producer, actor, and journalist, who is presenting "The Poor Nut" in Boston, who was also present, was primarily interested in the future of the "college life" drama...
...effect of good government in a city is not limited to the confines of that corporation. The example spreads. Just now, there is a wave of enthusiasm in favor of better city government spread through all sections of the country. Our people are desirous of putting an end to what Mr. Bryce described as 'the most conspicuous failure in the United States...
...Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only eight years have passed since then, but now the United States in undertaking to endorse an experiment intended...