Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-railroad radicals left a clear track ahead for railway stocks. Accordingly the Stock Exchange has been deluged with buying orders, and sharp advances have been caused. The public has been out of the stock market for some time, but it reentered with an almost unparalleled vigor and enthusiasm...
...finds in the increasing enthusiasm of college men for social work, both a keener realization of the problems and opportunities of group life and a greater willingness to share their talents with their brothers of the younger generation. Social work has become a recognized college activity, in which, a man may give expression to whatever gifts he possesses, as gymnasium leader, boys' club director, boxing instructor, manual training and woodwork instructors glee club leader, or dramatic coach. An immediate opportunity is now being presented in the campaign of the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House of the West End of Boston...
People who sit in the glittering horseshoes shoes of great opera houses, in the orchestras of famed concert halls, have cold faces, bright clothes. To brilliance, to frigidity runs their taste. Let a soprano pour out her soul in a fine frenzy of enthusiasm, they lift their eyebrows, clap and go away to their clubs or cabarets. But let her be a coloratura, let her sing with no emotion but with brilliance, with coldness, these cold, bright people in their turn give way to a fine frenzy of enthusiasm. Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took...
...early enthusiasm which greeted Harte's vigorous stories of the West has been replaced by no less immoderate scorn of their crude scenes and rough action. Abroad it is otherwise., "Even his detractors," writes Mr. Collins, "set Bret Harte in the same constellation with Poe and De Maupassant; and better balanced judges may look in vain for his superior in fire, originality, characterization, and range of power...
...squad cannot be sent upon the field with the memory of last night as its send-off. Another rally is to take place this afternoon at 4 o'clock, when the college will have one final opportunity to show its enthusiasm and its faith. Nothing more need be said...