Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Committee, meeting this evening for the presumable purpose of coming to a decision on the football coaching situation, faces a difficult task, made more difficult by the misplaced zeal of newspapermen and the equally misplaced advice of agitated alumni. Members of the team and undergraduates, the persons most intimately concerned with the problem, have been discreetly silent. They have shown a commendable willingness to allow the committee of experts appointed for the purpose to come to their decision unimpeded...
...evident that the worthy dean has reversed his sense. Business English is good English--of a kind. But in his zeal for his special brand, he must leave to doddering academicians their favorites also, for the "Kick" of today is nonsense tomorrow...
...Three forms of achievement are coveted which give immediate and obvious glory-places on athletic teams, editorships of student publications, presidencies of student organizations. These are sought with unflagging zeal and scholarship is relegated to a subordinate position. . . . The evil influence of many alumni in glorifying the less important features of college life is well known. . . . Many a father holds forth upon his son's performances at college exactly as he would upon those of a promising young three-year-old in his stable...
...business he gave attention to the minutest details of every enterprise. His adroitness in pickiing up stray pins was so startling that his office boys were instructed to see that there were none about when important conferences pended, since his zeal for pin-picking distracted his mind from other topics. Twelve years after the death of his first wife (née Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan), he married Eleanor Robson, actress. Her wedding cut short the engagement of her theatrical company. With characteristic generosity, Mr. Belmont paid every member of the troupe a year's salary...
...greatest international enemies of Soviet Russia are the communists in foreign countries. In an excess of zeal they consistently do their bit to block Russia's efforts to reestablish herself among nations...