Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King-Emperor moved three chessmen upon the board of State, and in a flash one was taken by an unseen player, Death. The coincidence, startling, roused keen interest in the three august chessmen...
...read of Ambassador Morrow's achievement, last week, could learn without keen interest that his brother, Colonel Jay Johnson Morrow, is now busy in Manhattan as chairman of a commission which is attempting to reconcile certain special boundary claims between Chile & Peru arising out of the general perennial Tacna-Arica controversy (TIME...
Further to harass the Commission, there was present in Geneva the author of the Russian project, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, a round-faced, round-bodied but keen-witted little man who is Soviet Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. Bustling straight to the point, he stood up before the Commission and charged that, although the League Assembly & Council have considered the problems of disarmament on 38 separate occasions, and although its deliberations have been continued by 14 committees during more than 120 series of sittings, still the fact remains -said Comrade Litvinov-that "not a single real step had been taken...
...pictured as a seductive satyr piping innocent nymphs down the primrose path is hard to believe. Now, however, Senora Doloras Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made keen observation of American morals", and gives the gravest of warnings to senoritas who might be tempted to copy their unprincipled northern sisters...
...performance by the American Opera Company gives to the audience not only keen artistic pleasure but a sense of participation in the making of musical history," Professor Ballantine said. "This company is an evidence of the recent growth of musical activity in America. All the singers are American, none of them over 32 years of age, and none...