Word: enthusiastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composure last week, skinny, sad-faced John Adelbert Kelley, who became one of this year's favorites by finishing second last year, explained about himself. He is the oldest child in a family of ten sired by an Arlington (Mass.) letter-carrier. William J. Kelley, a marathon enthusiast, took young John Adelbert to see Frank Zuna wobble across he finish line on Patriot's Day in 1921. Favorably impressed, 13-year-old John Adelbert Kelley thereupon went into training which he has maintained ever since. He made a habit of going three miles to the movies...
Same day at nearby Flint, another young stunter prepared to emulate Sohn. He was Floyd Davis, 22, parachutist and sailplane enthusiast. A pilot at 16, Davis had 230 hours flying time in 1929 when airport officials had him grounded for stunting. Just reinstated, he was now anxious to test a pair of homemade wings he had spent five months constructing...
Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News), longtime aviation enthusiast, read "Return to Earth," thought it showed writing ability, decided it was a shame that such a fine young man must risk his life to feed his family. He wired Author Collins, offered him a $100-per-week job as a newspaper columnist, writing about aviation...
...have seen Mr. Schuster vote for the acceptance of a book which offered no promise of money, but which seemed to him a work of art deserving of the light of print; Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance may serve as instances. Mr. Schuster is known as an enthusiast, in literature and music, who lets his tastes dictate more of his business than any "opportunist" would dare to do. I am sure that he has forgiven you; but as for myself I wince when TIME takes liberties with living souls. De vivis nil nisi bonum...
Died. Adrian Iselin, 3rd, 20, socialite motorcycle enthusiast; when a motorcycle he was riding at night on a race track struck a parked track scraper; in Freeport...