Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enthusiast...
...much appreciated in my home. We look forward to each issue with an interest unequalled by other publications. The other day we found the Postman paused on the doorstep deeply engrossed in a copy. It is understood to be a weekly occurrence. He is now charged with being an enthusiast...
...told by football friends that they did not even hear the cheering during a game much less care whether there was any or not. Cheering is a stimulant for the cheerers. The fact that they once also carried flasks never, so far as I have heard, led any Bacchic enthusiast to demand the administration of alcoholic refreshment to the players between halves. But as--so I am told--it was formerly considered undesirable for too many of the spectators to become too exalted in one respect, so we have also been accustomed to put some check on our male Maenads...
...strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek roots the meaning "deep sea enthusiast". Then why not use that adjective? But "bathysophical" requires some mental conjuring. And then you are uncertain...
...surface is submarine territory, on the average only three or four miles submerged but in some places far, far deeper. All this territory is unexplored, save here and there by blind plummets and groping dragnets. So for years Dr. Hartman, financially independent, has experimented-aided by that bathysophical enthusiast, the late Prince of Monaco ; by colleagues in the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences ; and by the U. S. Navy- with a battleship-steel, plate-glass-windowed chamber in which he would cause himself to be lowered to ocean depths far more profound than any living man had previously attained...