Word: overenthusiasms
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...Housman uses the word lad-a dubious word even in England-no less than 67 times. Oxford's Professor H. W. Garrod has objected to the "false-pastoral" quality of many of the poems, the frequent excessiveness of their emotions and situations. Poet Conrad Aiken, provoked by the overenthusiasm of an undergraduate, once described Housman as "a male Ella Wheeler Wilcox."† Housman himself appreciated the parody of himself (by Hugh Kingsmill) which begins...
Considerably more dramatic than Crisis in its subject matter, The 400,000,000 is photographically more exciting. Its principal defect is diffuseness in narrative method, overenthusiasm for old newsreel shots. Effective sequence: farmers, summoned by a Chinese Paul Revere on a horse, picking up rifles as they leave their rice fields...
...Vestris sinking, Walter Winchell, and other topical importances-False Dreams, Farewell is a lively and engrossing one-roof melodrama, well acted, fast and full of obvious but persuasive tricks. Its most entertaining personage is Novelist Christopher Jarret whose wife is hideous and mercenary. When she accuses him of overenthusiasm in their conjugal relation, Jarret is amazed. "Look in the mirror," he says, "and tell me it is anything but a disagreeable habit.'' The Piccoli (produced by Vittorio Podrecca). In a window on a miniature stage a four-foot wooden man dressed in the black velvet costume...
...estimated to be in the neighborhood of $360,000,000,000 (1928 figure), of which some $21,691,000,000 is the staggering sum represented by the people's investment in railroads, more than any other classification except real estate. In times past, panics have been caused by overenthusiasm for the carriers and their stocks, but now as in 1921 no such reason for Depression exists. Rail stocks have long since passed their lurid youth...
Relative stability and prosperity in general business continue, with a tendency to watch the money markets for signs of overexpansion or overenthusiasm. As yet, however, the money market gives little or no sign of such developments or the anticipation of them. Nervous stock traders bandy rumors of a rise in the Reserve rate, but nothing happens...