Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Williams Keen of Philadelphia, who is "profoundly grateful to my Heavenly Father for good "health and the ability to work even after having travelled so far in my 92nd year," chose a startling title for his 22nd book, which he published last week. The title: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant...
Brilliantly, passionately, yet with a keen eye for historical detail, Mr. Thaddeus presents the many-sided Voltaire, the man who walked with kings; who languished in the Bastille; who was an idol of the salons; who was a liar and forger, yet who risked his shrivelled body and his immortal soul for human liberty...
...Georges Clemenceau, whom Charles Seymour greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...
Last year about 20 men obtained permission to adopt tumbling as their winter recreation. Their interest was so keen, and the sport was so well founded that this year it has gained official recognition. There will be two sections meeting at 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the apparatus section off the main floor of Hemenway gymnasium. At first the sections will be divided up merely in respect to numbers, but as soon as any classification can be made, one group will be composed of advanced and one of elementary tumblers...
...Cincinnati an orchestra played without a leader.* It was an all-Schubert program and the season's first concert. Brilliantly, Conductor Fritz Reiner began with the Rosamunde overture, the C-major Symphony. After intermission he sent the players on stage alone for the Unfinished Symphony. The results pleased the keen ears of the Cincinnatians, the keener ears of Conductor Reiner...