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...wowser is human. The Australian slang dictionary defines him (or her) as "a puritanical enthusiast, a bluestocking, a drab-souled Philistine haunted by the mockery of others." What the U.S. soldiers and their Empire mates have to say about him would burn holes in a postman's sack...
Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, inveterate lighter-than-air enthusiast, had long since won recognition and appropriations for middle-sized blimps. Last week he was happy: blimps have been "contacting the enemy," and the third Eastern blimp base was opened, at Elizabeth City...
...leading tennis and table tennis enthusiast in his home city, the new champion relied on a powerful offensive to dominate completely the tournament conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Freshman Committee. Dean Hennessy, of the Committee, was in charge of the tourney...
...Enthusiast. In Boston, Stenographer Phyllis Cheyne, a mountain climber, reached her 20th-floor office every day by climbing the stairs. She said...
Among these, as might be expected, is the thrill of finding a fellow enthusiast in a world which includes so many "tin-ears." It's a gratifying part of any hobby, of course, and as anyone with a hobby will attest, a bond of fellowship is at once created. The two of you can sit up all night listening to records and comparing tastes, arguing as often as you agree. And usually that first feeling of kinship carries over when, after several hours, you begin to talk about something else...