Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bronx with a plurality of 250,000. There he met onetime Justice Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, coming up from Brooklyn and the "East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity of Tammany Hall and the power of the "Al" Smith banner were enough to lift him to the Senatorship...
...Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack's Scottish mansion, the Duke and Heiress are left to their own dangerous company, while the less keen, more pleasant couple enter holy matrimony. The cast is the last word in sophisticated urbanity...
Stark Young is only 45, so that only by hearsay could he have known these relatives of his at "Heaven Trees" before the Civil War. But his keen understanding and prodigious talent for transcribing subtle values have made of them, with no particular plot or thesis, as wholly real and charming a group of personalities as you are likely to meet in many a year...
...those whose life is most closely connected with them. Student interest in affairs of college, in the eternal verities of college life, must, to be at all effective, have purpose and direction or it is doomed to futility. The Federation hopes with a national scope, augmented by a keen interest in international college and university affairs, to make such purposiveness and such directness of approach possible. In their, attempt one can find nothing to condemn, unless he be pessimistic concerning the ability of youth to help in the solving of the problems of youth, and everything to praise. All educational...
...Piqued, Republican Manager William L. Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, called upon Senator Norris to go back home, to leave Keystoners to attend to their own business. Democrats deemed this a very weak retort from such an able man as Mr. Mellon to such a keen debater as Senator Norris, on such a vital subject as "corruption...