Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ground near London. Harrow, for the first time since 1908, won. It was too much for Harrovians, young and old, and they rushed on to the field to carry off the winning team on their shoulders. Some how a few Etonians got in the way, and be fore the enthusiasm had died down many an Eton topper had been smashed in and many an Harrovian umbrella busted. It was a very unseemly, frightfully un-British brawl...
...descend to 3,000 feet to give them a better look; cheering to Englishmen, who were informed by their newspapers that an equidistant flight over Germany would have taken the planes past Berlin, Hamburg, the Krupp works at Essen; irritating to Germans, whose newspapers screamed "war-mongering." Before popular enthusiasm for the performance ebbed, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented the House of Commons with the bill-not for the flight alone, but for British rearmament which had been so hearteningly dramatized. In his low and unemotional voice Sir John admitted that his estimates for the defense budget...
...Italian military establishments, of German "tourists" arriving in Italy by droves (some of them never returning), is not palatable to patriotic Latins. When the military alliance between Italy and Germany was signed in Berlin last May and the controlled Italian newspapers carried huge headlines describing the "wave of enthusiasm" spreading over Italy, it could not be detected in the streets. Two days later the country celebrated the 24th anniversary of Italy's entry into the World War against Germany and Austria. Work stopped at noon, bands played, parades formed, flags were waved. Never before had Italians so solemnly observed...
...ornamental as well as useful, a symbol as well as a pivot. Obviously, it is absurd to single out one man as a symbol of the equality of all men. ... In America, where no kings have been, they are able to make a pretense of enthusiasm for a president. But ... let some princeling of a foreign State set foot in America, and lo! all the inhabitants are tumbling over one another in their desire for a glimpse of him-a desire which is the natural and pathetic outcome of their unsatisfied inner craving for a dynasty of their...
...exact location was not disclosed, but central Asia is thousands of miles farther east than any Neanderthal remains hitherto discovered. Since Soviet science is more notable for enthusiasm than for scholarly caution, some skeptics might have wondered whether the skeleton was really a Neanderthal child or just the luckless progeny of some more recent Mongol wanderer. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, pronounced it a genuine Neanderthal specimen, left no doubt that was one of the most precious childr in anthropology's bare nursery. Dr. Hrdlicka knows...