Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal opening of the heralded Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 16). Invitations had been sent to many a socialite and artist. With Sir Joseph was his daughter Dorothy, more of a modern art enthusiast than he. Around them were Collectors Duncan Phillips and Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern...
...finds everything changed, his attitude illustrates the working of a law of psychology. He tells you first of all that undergraduates are younger now than they were in his time. This, we have seen, is a mistake. He tells you also that they are smaller. I recall one such enthusiast who insisted to me that present-day graduates were 'runty.' Here he is more seriously in error, for where physical examinations and measurements in the colleges have continued over any long stretch of time, they indicate, if anything, that the average freshman is somewhat taller...
Carefully Banker Hazelwood saw to it that the controversy over banking methods could not escape the convention, arranged speeches that represented all possible views from the old-fashioned single, branchless unit to national group banking. At the convention Mr. Hazelwood, although known to be an enthusiast for branch banking, declined to discuss its merits and demerits, spoke on his favorite topic of bank management...
...divot cut by Bobby Jones disappeared mysteriously. Sleuthing officials found it in the hands of a lady enthusiast who had retrieved it for a souvenir...
Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...