Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart Berliners, always keen patrons of horse racing, turned recently to dog racing and last week to woman racing...
Miss Calkins reflects a keen curiosity in human reactions. "Queens weep like simple women"-but why, what have queens to weep?. Yet she knows
Coincidently, the first important biography of Hearst has appeared.* It depicts Hearst as a onetime Harvard student who "tried manfully to drink beer," as a devoted husband, "a keen student of the Bible," and, through his newspapers, "a world force," a man who "has shortened by a generation certain sorely needed social and political reforms . . . has awakened the public consciousness of the average citizen...
...have sketched an extreme and sombre picture of trifling with that eye that started single; but in lesser degree every man must guard his vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former...
...have sketched an extreme and sombre picture of trifling with that eye that started single; but in lesser degree every man must guard his vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former...