Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best loved commissioner," "the most efficient" "the most tactful"?to the sound of such words, and of boisterous demonstrations, Henry Hastings Curran ferried away from his post of Immigration Commissioner at Ellis Island, to which three years ago he brought deep knowledge, experience, keen intelligence...
...rendering "The Moon Goes Drifting" by Homer Grunn and "Nocturne" by Pearl G. Curran, M. Marcoux sang with a lyrical power which is at once his peculiar beauty and forte. The quality of simplicity was unmarred by sentimentality and the full purity of voice awakened keen appreciative pleasure...
Seventy page report based on five months of keen observation and thoughtful analysis is a unique performance for undergraduates. Such is the record of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Education, and we highly commend them for their diligence and active interest in the affairs of the University. Such carefully thought-out and constructive suggestions from a student committee indicate a healthy condition at Harvard. Recognition of a malady, when a accompanied by definite steps toward correction, is half the remedy...
...admirably suggestive report of the Education Committee of the Harvard Student Council will afford material for helpful discussion, not only at Harvard but in other American universities. It represents the keen observation of a committee of students who are representative of the best undergraduate intelligence and character. The principal recommendation of the committee, that for a division of the Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors into permanent groups for purposes of residence--or, in other words, into "colleges" on the English plan is advanced with some very clear and cogent reasoning. It is of course, based on the present condition of unwieldiness...
...tribulations of a schoolboy whose first love is the wife of a faculty master. THE GREAT GOD BROWN-A stirring and occasionally obscure play by Eugene O'Neill discussing ex-pressionistically how an artistic spirit was submerged by modern competition. CRAIG'S WIFE-Chrystal Herne giving a keen portrait of a woman whose home became a sanctum in which even a husband had no place. THE WISDOM TOOTH-Glowing fantasy about a poor clerk who became a boy again for a few hours. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden's more or less annual revival of Rostand...