Word: enthusiastic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previously been appropriated for naval aviation.) Simultaneously the President nominated and the Senate ap proved Edward P. Warner and Frederick Trubee Davison as Assist ant Secretaries of the Navy and Army, respectively, to direct aviation. Edward P. Warner, skilled aero-engineer and aerodynamicist, young enthusiast, has been professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also conducted a post-graduate course for army and navy officers. Said the New York Times: "A better appointment could hardly be made." F. Trubee Davison. In the summer of 1917, people of New York were too busy with War chatter to notice...
Former Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana, brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist), unsuccessful farmer, K. K. K. enthusiast, now lies sick in the Atlanta penitentiary, where he was sent two years ago for using the mails to defraud. In April, big Senator Watson, politically powerful, pleaded before President Coolidge for the convict's release; last week he tried again (bringing along the other Indiana Senator). But the convict's term of ten years, despite the convict's friends, remains unabbreviated...
...hole is not an easy hole at all. Abe Mitchell knows this. Until that hole he had been doing very well in the Roehampton invitation-the first British professional tournament of the year. Rugged and jaunty after a hibernation at St. Albans (where, under the patronage of a wealthy enthusiast, he has been pursuing his studies), he had dealt nonchalantly with various examples of spring exuberance-with young W. B. Smith, whom he defeated 4 and 3; with Archibald Compston, by the same score-and now he was about to measure drives with his ancient, closemouthed, companionable enemy, George Duncan...
...anything differently from anyone else." Fishing is his great recreation, and his acute hearing has made him a delighted auditor at football and baseball sidelines. On the occasion of Hadley's 250th anniversary parade, he designed 30 floats, working out color schemes with his wife's aid. A radio enthusiast, he hopes soon to have broadcast to his 100,000 fellow blind people in the U. S., his autobiography, Hitting the Dark Trail...
...moving picture enthusiast. Yet, be it said in all frankness, I am from time to time led to contemplation of the so-called silver screen by the varagies of my vagabondage as well as by the fancies of my friends...