Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THAT'S WHAT I CALL KEEN --I'M MORE THAN SATISFIED: The former, in spite of the name, has an interesting piano interlude. But what a name...
...flat emotions; a young musician's painful maladjustment on returning home from the greater world (Paris left-bank); a young girl's brooding over an implied sadistic horror-these are subject to Author Wescott's youthful scrutiny. He has a marked gift for creating atmospheric effects, and a keen sense of human drama ("In a Thicket," "Like a Lover," "The Sailor"); but, immature in his aping, he caters too much to Proust and Joyce...
Traditions the series of games had accumulate made it a precious one to the public and the display attached to the annual meeting of the two Institutions made it one in which they took a keen personal interest. The rupture between the two due to a dispute of whose merits few laymen could judge was bound to create a feeling of resentment, and no matter now unwarranted this may have been, its ending cannot, but meet the general approval...
...Robert Keen Lamb Occ., of Washington, D. C., has been appointed assistant in the University Bureau of Publicity, it was announced yesterday. Pending the appointment of a successor to J. W. D. Seymour '17, former Secretary to the University for Information, Lamb will supervise news releases and carry on the duties of the Director's office under the immediate direction of Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University...
...Fred J. Fisher, canny, was buying his stock with keen purpose. Revelation came last year when hard-bitten President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive roared that he would let no "outsider" on to Baldwin Locomotive's board of directors. Fred J. Fisher (and Arthur W. Cutten) made little rebuttal. But at the next Baldwin Locomotive board meeting Fred J. Fisher was truculently made a director (also Mr. Cutten). He controlled sufficient stock (as did Mr. Cutten) to force his election as director...