Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Torches, placards, and a beauty queen were thrown in as G.O.P. boosters indulged in a final burst of enthusiasm befor the polls open today...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Britain's Health Minister, was a bit embarrassed last week by the public's enthusiasm for government-financed doctoring. He announced: "It seems that an extraordinary proportion of the population has bad sight . . . The health service will fail unless the people use it intelligently, sparingly and prudently...
...morning chapel last week sat in unhappy silence when the chairman of the trustees announced Miss Mac's decision to resign-effective whenever a suitable replacement could be lined up for the job. Said Miss Mac in her letter of resignation: "I recommend [the presidency] with unrestrained enthusiasm . . . as stimulating and important as any position I know...
...delight," said Shaw when he received an inscribed first edition of Professor Wilson's rather heady treatise. Wilson, before getting down to the origins and philosophy of languages, had rehearsed the old controversy of natural selection v. creative evolution, the better to drub the Darwinians. Full of youthful enthusiasm, 91-year-old Shaw sat down to write a 36-page introduction for a new edition of Professor Wilson's study in which he proves, if nothing else, that he can still write the liveliest prose of any man alive. He takes the reader on a joy ride, part...
...crowed, which was overwhelmingly pre-Dewey, didn't know exactly what to make of all this bubbling and gurgling and sat in puzzled silence throughout most of it. Only twice did they respond during the speech and when Dewey had finished the enthusiasm, in marked contrast to what it had been when he came in, was perfunctory and lasted less than a minute...