Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their first months were a struggle to build a dining room and studio, whose modernistic design drove native workmen crazy. They visited sheiks, harems (a disappointment), native officials (most of them later assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...
...attend an opening of a play like this with some such title as The Battle of the Market Place. For frequently to be seen at Sardi's, where he was long known solely as "Mr. Chocolate" from his penchant for hot chocolate, is a young theatre enthusiast who sees every play that comes to Broadway and has already written three himself (none produced). At present, Mr. Chocolate is too busy to keep up his writing; he happens to be the new president of the New York Stock Exchange...
Whether Author Gogarty is only temporarily holding himself in, or really means to start living down the legends of his past, I Follow Saint Patrick is, for him, a strangely subdued and pious piece of writing. Of Gogarty the "wit, poet, mocker, enthusiast" and original of bawdy Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, the poet is about all that remains. As hagiographer of Ireland's patron saint, Gogarty writes as one on holy ground, and it has taken most of the Elizabethan starch...
Announced as chairman of the new Aeronautical Authority last week was no politician, no airline executive, no prominent kibitzer from the aeronautical sidelines. He was the man who makes candy Life Savers, 55-year-old Edward John Noble. An eminently successful business man, a flying enthusiast for ten years, a man with undeniable poise and organizational ability, tested in business and in the Wartime U. S. Army, he represented what the air industry has cried loudest for. An upstate New Yorker and a Republican, Edward John Noble worked for a time as a reporter on the Watertown Daily Times, became...
...might be expected, a sailing enthusiast as hearty as Author Villiers is all for it. In The Making Of a Sailor he expresses his enthusiasm in a few pages of miscellaneous facts about schools and 191 photographs of sailing vessels: These show cadets at work, studying navigation, shooting the sun, splicing, reefing (also glimpses apparently included only because they make nice pictures of the Joseph Conrad at Tahiti, Sydney, the Sargasso Sea). Typical schoolship facts: of 4,000 boys trained in the Danish schoolship Georg Stage, 2,000 are in the Danish merchant marine, most of them officers...