Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue TIME has gone the way of many flesh in the U. S. by saying "Italy sent a Bugatti racer." As every foreign car enthusiast and owner should know, the Italian-named Bugattis are the product of Ettore Bugatti, Molsheim, France...
...there is no money, there is, of course, no money. Certainly the music makers cannot be asked to pay their own expenses. Nevertheless, the intricate alphabetical evolutions between the halves are a major feature of the afternoon for the average spectator, and to even the most austere enthusiast the prospect of a game without Wintergreen is dull indeed. From the viewpoint of the team, too, the band is definitely an asset. The blare of a brass horn has the heartening effect of a dozen cheers. Enthusiasm next week is expected to be high; Princeton is obviously one of the major...
While the varsity team, which commands the greatest interest in years, will dominate the headlines, the 1939 squad will command much interest this fall. It is a good year for the football enthusiast...
...with the cry of "plagiarism." The cry was raised over the latest McIntyre book, The Big Town, a collection of "New York Day By Day" columns. In his own "Bowling Green" column in the Saturday Review of Literature Mr. Morley ironically recalled that McIntyre had long been a Morley enthusiast. (Sample McIntyre column note: "The most perfect verbal silversmith, to my notion, is Christopher Morley.") Morley went on to say that McIntyre had been so carried away by his enthusiasm that for 15 years he consistently cribbed Morleyisms in his daily columns, now in book form. Wrote "Chris" Morley...
After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much...