Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showdown with his studio bosses, Showman Kelly was forced to play for the quick cash and let the enduring credit go. In the first of his danced playlets, however, Kelly manages to reach something not too far from the Diaghilevel, and that one effort should persuade the ballet enthusiast as well as the movie fan to accept his invitation to the dance...
...Enthusiast. Twelve is an age of enthusiasm. Twelve rushes headlong into debates without really knowing what he is going to say; he may be so anxious to join a certain activity that he may knock things over on the way. Unlike Eleven, who tended to hoard his money, Twelve is sometimes such a spendthrift that he is often flat broke. As one mother put it, "He can't stand prosperity." He is far more concerned about his appearance but only up to a point. A girl might spend hours primping in front of a mirror...
...ideal day of rest for the railroad enthusiast is spent on a jaunt with his fellow enthusiasts to a destination which has significance in railroad history. The enthusiast of course prefers to ride behind steam, but in these trying times of dieselization, must be content just to ride. Whenever the "hogger" (engineer) stops for water (and engineers must ration such stops carefully now), just as like as not the railroad enthusiast will leap from the vestibule, race to the engine, and consume a role of Kodachrome in the excitement of the moment. If he's not taking photographs...
...book from his hand, and observed, "Hey, you're in Ec I too, huh?" Pretty well everybody was interested in the B & M's engine, the 3713, which is the line's last P-4 Pacific-type. It has a wheel arrangement of 4-6-2, which, as an enthusiast knows, is the way you distinguish one steam engine from another. Others, like the two fellows who brought their tape recorders along, took special delight in 3713's whistle, which is marked for posterity on a commercial disk scheduled for release by Charles Clarke, an electronics specialist from Newton. Still...
...this folksy interest is characteristic of the indulgent railroad enthusiast. He is indefatiguable in his minute study of how engines work and how railroad keep on time...