Word: enthusiastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space was covered by the surging flood of humanity which over-flowed onto chairs, tables, mantlepieces, and bookshelves. Windowsills were converted into benches and the piano into a grandstand, while one determined enthusiast was even found up the chimney...
...printed several letters commending your review of Elmer Gantry [TIME, March 28]. May I say a word on the other side ? My friend, Hillis L. Remington, says the critique was clever. I agree with him. Clever, yes, but that's all. I am a TIME enthusiast, but I feel that your review of Mr. Lewis' book was, consciously or unconsciously, bigoted. I speak for my friend, who reads TIME every week at the Meriden (Conn.) Y. M. C. A., as well as for myself...
...extraordinary costume consisting of buckled shoes, long silk stockings, satin knee-breeeches, an ordinary vest and sack coat, a felt hat, and a cane. For a few moments business stopped and the crowd stared at his costume and admired his courage and then in contradistinction to the enthusiast who became so enamored of classical culture that he wandered about the streets of New York in the costume of the ancient Greeks until the police laid hands on him he went...
...Ph.D.'s and section men it is comforting to be approached on the subject on one's personal glamour. The fact that many other colleges and universities are receiving the same honor does not detract from its value, for while a Yale movie star is conceivable even the cheeriest enthusiast has heretofore failed to prophesy a Harvard cinema idol...
Archery-golf was originated four years ago in San Francisco, not for meteorological reasons. A big game hunter, archery enthusiast, held golf in low esteem, challenged a golfing friend, each to use his favorite weapons. Last year it was introduced in less favored climes as a winter sport. It "caught on." This winter has seen the game in high favor at Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, other snowbound golf centres...