Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mattern should be allowed to perform a dangerous and bootless flight for Chicago's glory does not seem clear. But the enthusiast for variety should not condemn our aviators without a hearing, for in comparison with other daredevils they have displayed a real fecundity of invention. Mr. Brody jumped, and seldom featly, from all our great bridges, and there was in his contortious a lack of grace monotonous to all but the local Chambers of Commerce. Many barrels ricocheted over Niagara Falls before Buffalo was convinced that the idea had lost its original savor...
...Brown plays with deadly seriousness which is at times intensely funny, and with few of the rubberface antics which used to make his acting tasteless. A more loyal baseball enthusiast than Elmer the Great. Cinemactor Brown is part owner of the Kansas City Blues...
President Roosevelt wanted and got a farm relief enthusiast...
Last winter British Art Dealer Sir Joseph Duveen finished a long wait when King George V, no Duveen enthusiast, made him Lord Duveen of Millbank. Part-payment on the title was his gift to Britain of a new wing for London's National Portrait Gallery. Last week ruddy Duveen, a Lord at last, listened proudly in the Gallery's great tapestry-hung hall while King George ceremoniously declared the wing open through the "generosity of . . . Sir Joseph Duveen." Listening too were Queen Mary and Prime Minister MacDonald. From pictures on the walls Britain's dead great looked...
...observed Dr. Rafe Chester Chaffin, assistant professor of gynecology in the College of Medical Evangelists at Los Angeles. In the current American Journal of Surgery he, a radio enthusiast, explained how he had equipped himself to talk to his classes without raising his voice and disturbing the patient. His device is a microphone mounted on a little rod, held before his mouth inside the surgeon's mask by a headband, connected to an amplifier built into a suitcase...