Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These Charming People. Michael Arlen's second play burst upon Broadway with a vast fanfare of enthusiasm. It was reported a great success in tryout; it employed a brilliant cast. Accordingly when it turned out to be a tawdry, dull and not particularly intelligent adventure, bitterness rose in the spectators' breasts...
...enthusiasm displayed by Harvard's spectators in last Saturday's game, enthusiasm rising even above the discomforts of wet feet and chilly spines, was quite as remarkable, and pleasant, a feature of the game as was the score itself...
...This enthusiasm may have been natural exuberance at the rare spectacle of a Harvard score board discarding the simple arithmetic of football games and adopting the higher mathematics of thermometers, stock tickers, speedometers, and voting machines. But its thunderous expression, in cheer after lusty cheer, lasting throughout the game, was certainly due to the capable direction of the four energetic squads of cheer leaders selected on a competitive basis for the first time in Harvard's athletic history. Seldom have Harvard cheer leaders shown such energy, such ability, or such scrupulous attention to the long-neglected courtesies of the football...
...also quite probable that public enthusiasm over the magnitude of this project will result in such a national championship tournament becoming an annual event; and, in view of this probability, it will be interesting to see what course the so-called "Big Three" will follow. Participation in such a contest, involving as it does both greater national interest than over before, and the hysterical atmosphere of a tremendous crowd, undoubtedly runs counter to the more reasonable and less puerile attitude toward football which those who have the well-being of football as a college sport closest at heart are striving...
...banking circles, the gradual economic and financial recovery of most European countries is now generally recognized, although this is infrequently accompanied by enthusiasm for foreign investments. However, economists have long predicted that our credits and te some extent our current trade balances must be adjusted with Europe by importing securities. This winter it looks as if such securities could be made and sold here without too great risk to lenders and without exorbitant interest rates to borrowers. If so, a new stage in the history of the U. S. as a creditor nation will be introduced...