Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fishing, Hunting Enthusiast...
...happened to know that he was a dahlia enthusiast and grew many show blooms. Being only an amateur dahlia grower . . . and having learned how ... to beg of those more fortunate a few of their dahlia roots that they are sure not to plant, I wrote the Secretary, admitting my poor financial standing and profoundly and sincerely begged for some...
Jorge Ubico comes close to being all things to all Guatemalans. He is a radio enthusiast, an amateur photographer, a gadget lover, a motorcyclist, a general in the Army, the official Father of his Country and President of Guatemala. Handsome, ice-eyed President Ubico has proved to his own and most people's satisfaction that he is an able, if high-handed, executive who has halved the national debt, constructed many a road and public building...
Died. Dr. Robert George Jackson, 83, the Canadian Bernarr Macfadden; of cancer; near Toronto. Food faddist and exercise enthusiast for some 30 years, he said "God has provided the means by which we can always be well," lived chiefly on fruits, nuts and grain. Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout. Canadians knew best his "Roman Meal"; U.S. citizens knew two other products whose trade names Alexander Woollcott shudderfully disclosed: "Lishus," and "Bekus Puddy...
Little Segura's lusty swings are deceptive: a shot that seems to start as a forehand drive sometimes floats over the net for a drop shot. A passionate enthusiast, twinkletoed and tireless, he yells Ay! (Alas) when he gets excited. Waiting for a serve, he jumps up & down with impatient impatience. He is fun to watch, and by last week Ecuador's idol was fast becoming the latest darling of U.S. tennis fans...