Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gala night," "once more with a brilliant cast . . ." wishing to Heaven they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn volley, lasted for 13 minutes. The shuffling ones stared at one another in silent amaze...
...chorus and the leading lady, though not dressed in the present fashion apparently also aroused great enthusiasm. The CRIMSON calls P. L. Fish '01 who took the part of Lucy Lenox, the heroine, "a fascinating maiden"--and a Boston paper described in accurate detail the impression which "the opening chorus of men's voices issuing from pretty girls dressed in short skirts and shirt-waists" made on the audience...
Best of all were the good spirits that pervaded the entire production. Brim-full of enthusiasm, skill, and speed, the players, singers, and dancers in "Dixie to Broadway" got their stuff across to the last row; the audience was only too glad to come back with a glad hand...
...yesterday afternoon only 600 tickets had been sold of the total Harvard allotment of 2622. The H. A. A authorities believe that this dearth of applications is largely due to the fact that the Yale game is earlier than usual this year, and that therefore hockey enthusiasm is not yet fully aroused...
...principal objection to "Mem" being used for this purpose will be that its very atmosphere seems to dampen any show of enthusiasm for gayety; those who argue thus point to the sombre but dignified array of portraits on the walls as evidence. I distinctly recollect hearing a "long Harvard" given in Memorial Hall on one occasion that would put to shame any cheer heard in the Stadium of late years...