Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Miss George's performance is one of the most expertly irresistible of the season, almost an equal credit must go to Bruce McRae. He is, perhaps, the champion leading male of our theatre. Never did his intensive enthusiasm, his rapidity of speech and his pleasant personality better fit a role...
...Ever since I came here to this University, I have been conscious of a certain lack of enthusiasm among graduates and undergraduates in rowing matters. At first I was inclined to think that it was only the grumbling of a few discontented old timers, and gave it small consideration. Later when I found that it affected more or less the student body. I began to sit up and take notice...
...Androcles and the Lion", Mr. George Bernard Shaw's satircal version of the ancient fable, expressively and delightfully presented at the Capley Theatre, Monday evening, drew an audience whose size and enthusiasm indicates a rush for early reservations. This is the first opportunity for almost a decade in Boston to see one of the most famous and funniest of Mr. Shaw's plays, and those people who follow the best in the theatre are taking no chances of missing such an excellent production of the great "humanitarian naturalist...
...newspapers of the country have received the satire with attitudes varying from disgust to enthusiasm. The New London Times condemns it as "juvenile sophistication." while the Boston Advertiser hails it as a "wild rebel fling." But all opposition notwithstanding more copies of the H. B. S. number have been ordered than can be filled at present. Hence the new edition...
...ones, because to wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs with which we are also familiar. No English public school can now compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following our English lead when they discover moral reasons for sacrificing the upper-class youth of the country to the unit of athletics. Most significant of all, however, is the growth among a small section in some Universities of a leisured attitude to learning...