Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruth Slenczynski, 6-year-old pianist from Sacramento, fairly astounded sophisticated Berlin with her playing of a difficult classical program. At the end of the concert one enthusiast tried to give her a doll over the footlights but Polish Father Slenczynski objected, rushed forward, seized the doll, hurled it back into the audience...
...smaller but serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician boatman, a lively but retiring enthusiast. His bitterest disdain is windless weather because it makes yachting "not very enjoyable...
Being a cover-to-cover TIME enthusiast & a near original subscriber I have failed to see mentioned a "milestone" in American culture...
...during the War, selling to the Government when steel became scarce and the embargo was lifted. His drive and Mr. Fuller's flashy marketing and advertising ideas kept Richfield running its rapid expansion course. He was quiet in business, rewarded justly and reprimanded mercilessly. He was an air enthusiast, held much stock in Fokker Aircraft Corp. before General Motors took control, also helped found Western Air Express which has likewise been aided by General Motors (TIME, March 16). He had a $150,000 "air yacht," also the seagoing Krupp-built Carissima. He gave big parties, was said to have...
...content with a mere abracadabresque chanting of holy names, Durant follows up his list of required reading with many a hortatory ejaculation. "Absorb every word of Taine's chapter on Byron. . . . Do not miss the odes of Keats. . . . Go then, to William James. . . ." Nothing if not an enthusiast, he exclaims of John Cowper Powys: "Here is the finest American prose since Santayana...