Reformers declared victory, disbanded, and turned their attention to other things; throughout the excitement of World War One, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War Two, the issue of an undemocratic Senate faded away.
It's 1950, and dashing Freddie is still (in his head) caught up in the excitement of the war.
His own language, a stream of consciousness pulsing with energy, but masterfully controlled, captured the fear and the horror, but also the excitement, of the war in the jungle and paddy fields.
Missing his fiancee and the excitement of the war, he felt directionless; he dreaded going back to work in an office and considered himself a sportsman rather than a businessman.
It was non-stop excitement from Declaration of War (Queen Anne Stakes) to Chiberta King (Queen Alexandra) via, of course, the Queen's Gold Cup winner Estimate.
Many veterans find civilian life pointless and flat after the excitement and stress of war.
Because of the excitement of battle scenes, war movies almost can't help romanticizing combat, but "The Steadfast," which doesn't waste time trying to simulate fighting, does not glorify it.
Such compromises were easy to make in autumn 1914, when the excitement over the outbreak of war was high, causing a crush of enlistments, and when it was still generally believed that the war would be over within six months.
The terror and excitement of a century of war, displayed in objects ranging from a vivid description by a schoolboy of a Zeppelin crashing 100 feet from the country house where he had been sent for safety, to a Reuters Land-Rover, still with its "Press" signs, which was damaged in a rocket attack in Gaza, will go on display when the Imperial War Museum reopens to the public on Saturday.
