Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anonymity, none of the members marched in the parade, their places being filled by 50 Cambridge boys, one to represent each member. A few of the Nihilists, masked, followed the parade in an open automobile. At the H. A. A. where the parade was scheduled to disband, such enthusiasm was manifest that the boys refused to break up and marched in a body back to Mount Auburn Street...
Professor Einthoven expressed himself as much impressed with the excellent and hard work that is being done in the laboratories of Boston. "You not only have the money but you have the men and their wonderful enthusiasm," he said...
...Premier Baldwin described the Labor Ministers as "cheap-jacks of politics, always full of enthusiasm but never doing anything...
...Manhattan, actually was composed before the other, and shows it. It is an effective com- position, but with traces of immaturity and it is unhappily reminiscent. There is Tchaikovsky in it, and Puccini, Strauss and, above all, Wagner. But it was well and carefully delivered and welcomed with enthusiasm by the audience. A little perplexity was caused by the fact that, obviously a piece of program music, no key was given to its meaning. The orchestra itself is better than ever...
Untaught by the burst of protest against Defense Day, President Coolidge has lent his support to a nearly identical program. Unchastened by the virtual fiasco of last September's celebration, he has endorsed in a letter whose enthusiasm is matched only by its length the proposed celebration of today as Navy Day. But the militaristic basis of the plan he concealed beneath a quite proper emphasis upon the peaceful achievements of the naval forces in exploration, charting, assisting commerce, mapping currents and winds; in sum, making the seas less the dreaded playground of unfamiliar forces...