Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better built, more attractive homes, more stylish and durable clothes could also be readily available. With precise enthusiasm, Prophet Moulton gives such detailed examples of potential progress as non-warp, non-scratch, non-splinter pleasure boats, and plastic violins which might all but rival the Stradivarius in tone...
...native American enthusiasm for rescues was tried to the utmost when a flash flood marooned 21-year-old Robert M. Lee on a rock 55 yards from the bank of South Carolina's Columbia Canal. A Navy blimp was flown from Savannah, Ga. to have a go at him and failed. But after twelve hours, two daredevils with an outboard motorboat managed to snake him, safe & sound, out of the torrent of white water...
...however, does not mean much to a Jap songwriter. Because of a record shortage and slow sheet-music sales, Hattori makes only about 7,000 yen ($16.66) a song. Last month he wrote 20, including several for his movie biography, Eternal Enthusiasm...
...persistent form of eczema. Sharp-tongued and truculent, he became embroiled in endless quarrels with his fellow Frenchmen, finally retired to an isolated island of the Marquesa group. There he hoped "that the completely savage atmosphere and solitude will, before I die, inspire me with a new fire of enthusiasm which will renew my imagination and put the finishing touch to my talent...
Careful Reading. "If Mrs. Roosevelt's discussion were really anti-Catholic," Dr. Behnken reasoned, "it would be anti-Lutheran, too. Lutherans have as much enthusiasm for protecting the best interests of their church, their schools and their children as the Roman Catholics have. Careful reading of Mrs. Roosevelt's statements in her discussion of federal aid to schools convinces us that they were not hostile to religion or to any individual church...