Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Underlying all, however;, there is a certain serious spirit in the convention, a spirit which called it into being in the first place. A common intense interest in public questions and a keen desire to do their part in the political life of the nation brought the members of the Democratic Club together. Their convention tonight and tomorrow will be a jovial and lively climax to months of serious discussion and earnest work and the platform which is adopted will be the chief fruit of their labors. It will be a sincere expression of the opinions of Harvard's politically...
Through choppy Mediterranean seas dashed the British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
Before long, his keen and roving eye for the aesthetic beauty of the female figure caused him to enlarge the focus of his attention. He produced a dignified operetta called The Red Feather and another more sprightly beauty show called Mile, Fifi. His first wife was Anna Held, who starred in this show, became famous for singing "I Can't Make My Eyes Behave," and who had the narrowest waistline in the U. S. at a time when such details commanded favorable notice...
...repetitious monotony. A little editing would have cut from page 15 the description of her first forehand drive described in almost the same one-syllable words on page 5, or from pages 8, 25, 108, the repeated precept of playing only two sets at a time and stopping though keen to go on to the third...