Word: enthusiastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd yowled its approval. An enthusiast rushed to the ringside. "Yah! Yah! Yah! Delaney knocked you so far you'll never come back...
...Wireless Salvation. Cardinal Dubois, Archibshop of Paris, is a radio enthusiast and has a receiving set in his Archiepiscopal Palace. But he thinks that radio is powerless to save souls. " Broadcast sermons cannot be expected to convert anyone. Wireless is too dry and cold to have an effect. Personal magnetism is lacking...
...trouble to produce a tune which would appeal to rats. In France and Switzerland animals were granted due process of law and one famous lawyer is know to have defended rats in court at Autun. The interest of some men takes the form a animal study. An English enthusiast reports the appearance of a plague of blind moles, a reaction, he thinks, of the war and the disappearance of the Hanoverian rat, and unwelcome attache to the House of Hanover...
When the golfing honor of a nation is at stake, excitement may run as high as in a great football match. Many an enthusiast who does his daily eighteen must have felt his heart sink when the news of the first day's battle in Scotland for the Walker Cup told of but one American victory out of four matches. The necessity of winning at least five and a half of the remaining eight matches in order to keep the 'scutcheon clear and bring the cup once more to America formed a dismal prospect. Yet no more dismal than...
Colonel Ham, a white-haired enthusiast, warmed to reminiscences of Mark Twain, broken in his latter days, but still blessed with a sense of humor, and of Dickens' son, Charles, for a time in the Canadian Northwest mounted police. " I never mentioned his father to him," Colonel Ham told us, "and he was so surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good?...