Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director 0. Emerson Brown of Philadelphia's Zoological Gardens, an ape enthusiast, as an experimental breeding place. The Republic of Cuba doubtless remembered this offer when, short of funds with which to maintain the Villa Palatino, it last week consigned part of Senora Abreu's collection to the Philadelphia zoo. The shipment contained a family of Sumatran orangutans, a pair of lion...
Charles Robert Walsh, now 27, is professor of public speaking at the Law School of St. John's College, Brooklyn. He is still shy, scholarly and a Dickens enthusiast but he does not take himself so seriously as he did at 13. The Tale of Two Cities, he decided not long ago, might make a good operetta if the plot were juggled around a bit. Charles Darnay might become a conventional villain, Sidney Carton could escape and go back to Lucy, sedate Miss Pross could become a comedienne called Prossie. . . . He proceeded haltingly to pick out tunes...
...progressive in spirit. The possibility that it may be harmful to the teacher should discredit its use. In addition the undergraduates themselves on some occasions would often not like to applaud, but feel it too great a rebuff not to do so. At other times it commences with one enthusiast and it is only participated in by others out of politeness. With all these things taken into consideration, it would seem best to discontinue this practice except at such appropriate occasions as at the end of each semester when due appreciation should naturally be shown. --Yale News...
There is a vast difference between professional and intercollegiate boxing which is not always realized by the average sport enthusiast. In the latter every effort is made to accentuate the scientific principles of the sport and to turn the bouts into clean, hard, fighting for the sake of exercise rather than to make them grudge fight spectacles, colored by fits of temper. Goading and wild displays by the spectators are forbidden, destroying the possibility of adding the professional vulgarism...
...when he wrote John Brown's Body (1928). His is a Muse of a straightforward, dramatic kind, at her best in balladish vein. Into this book Poet Benet has collected his favorites from three earlier, out-of-print volumes and has added some new ones. Only a Benet enthusiast would call this book first-class, but almost anyone would grant its readability, its occasional bursts of exciting phrases...