Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platform to shout Godspeed. Ramsay Macdonald's head- a tousled mop of silver-bobbed in friendly fashion from the door of his compartment. Beside him, flushed and laughing, stood apple-cheeked Ishbel Macdonald, his wholesome daughter. "Ishbel," the onetime Premier had chuckled to newsgatherers, "Ishbel has always been keen to visit the United States. She wants to motor out to Mount Vernon when we get to Washington because she is greatly interested in the first American President, George Washington. I am sure she will not be disappointed, for Mount Vernon is a beautiful place. My late wife...
...week, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist, onetime (1919) Premier and still national hero of Poland, was instructed in British etiquet by a natty emissary of his Excellency Baron Stonehaven of Ury, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Australia. For an instant M. Paderewski's keen eyes snapped, then he bowed: "Say to your Governor, Monsieur, that Paderewski will accord him the honor which he deserves...
...businessmen were quickest to present the ultimate consumer with exactly what he wanted to buy under exactly the name and guise to which he was accustomed. Therefore, as the newest Hamburg-American Liner steamed toward New York harbor on her maiden voyage last week, the name painted at her keen bow and across her neat stern was, of course, New York...
...Holy Rollers (except the small Unitarian sect) hold that Jesus was divine, it appears that only about 30% of Dartmouth is Christian. Something over 40% are non-Christian theists, and the balance are either agnostics or atheists. All this, of course, on the assumption that Dartmouth students are keen enough to know what they are. The fact that 455 said they are active church members while only 330 subscribe to the distinguishing tenet of Christianity indicates that the boys are not sure what they...
ALTHOUGH one of the old guard in the ranks of English novelists, May Sinclair has never been addicted to what one might term a Victorian style of writing. Her ideals may be faintly romantic, her point of view that of a retiring, gentlewomen, but her prose is terse, keen and precise. This verbal sparsity exhibits itself especially in her latest book "The Allinghams"--a work faultlessly written but unfortunately conceived...