Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes admirable reading. It is a direct and human story, normal and natural, told without a breath either of conscious advertisement, or of unreal humility. It is written with quick and nervous energy. There is much deft description, shrewd comment, and keen insight. All through it runs a virile loyalty, and a disciplined enthusiasm which marks the spiritual expert. It is skillfully condensed, giving a true perspective and a clear impression...
...suspect this book will seem a trifle old-fashioned to many people. Towards the end of each essay there is a tendency towards gentle moralizing; pervading them is a keen contagious love of nature and of simple things. For most readers it should furnish an excellent after Divisionals tonic...
...keen eye trained to observe the antics of one's fellow men and a fine sense of humor are the prime requisites for a cartoonist," declared Clare Briggs, America's leading cartoonist in an interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is the author of a number of series of cartoons, among the best known being "Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?", "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Someone is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life", "Mr. and Mrs.", and "Real Folks at Home...
...notes at Hankow, the Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then the seven principal district "generals" administering Nationalist territory pledged allegiance to Chiang Kaishek, declaring...
...held by the gloe clubs of Yale, Harvard and Princeton have been challenged recently by the appearance in the same field of musical clubs from an ever increasing host of other universities. There are now approximately two hundred and fifty of these organizations which give excellent performances and provide keen competition for each other on the annual Chistmas and Easter trips which they all undertake. The older clubs have maintained their prestige only by striving for continual improvements in their concerts and by making their appeal to the general concert-going public in addition to the college alumni...