Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commissioners were talking last week about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even in the U. S. Observers last week pondered some of the things...
...days, had heard people so far forget themselves as to cheer him-and Bach. Some went to hear him for the first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British Isles as cricket matches, a musician with a keen enough sense of humor to tell on himself of the moist night in South Africa when he slipped off his stool and under the piano. They saw him come out on the stage, a little man, one-third fore head and nearly two-thirds shirt front; saw him bow, start...
General Smuts had a no less difficult task, for the tide of public opinion was running fast, fast enough to promise civil war. A Boer himself, he is yet a keen, sincere imperialist, believing that the manifest destiny of the Union lies in membership in the Commonwealth. While firm for a flag that would embody the Union Jack, he nevertheless urged moderation upon his followers and it was through his tact and diplomacy that he obtained important concessions from the Government and so was able to induce his South African Party to accept the compromise...
...well understand your keen interest in this most marvelous invention with its great possibilities. Those of us who were pioneers will soon be forced to turn the reins of radio over to you boys, and we want you to be strong and healthy, as the burden will undoubtedly increase as new avenues for radio are opened up by you and your colleagues. "This is a marvelous field for the American boy, and such enthusiasm as you have displayed should as a rule be commended rather than discouraged, but in order to develop into a big, strong, healthy boy you must...
...provided for the air passengers, including books of elaborate photographic views along the air routes, and comprehensive time tables with connections to all parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Posters displayed by aviation corporations in France, Germany, and Russia, and sent to the Business School show that a keen competition exists in the air transportation business of Europe...