Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advance volumes of "The Great Oxford" do not give "bathysophical," but if one reasons from the analogy of "bathymetric" and "bathygraphic," it is not hard to get the meaning of "bathysophical." To one versed in his Greek roots it should give a keen pleasure to have this adjective applied to the late Prince of Monaco, who was most wise in things pertaining to the depths...
...comic talents of George Bernard Shaw were combined with the keen tragic sense of John Galsworthy, the easy virtuosity of Pinero and the poetic imagination of Barrie."?(That caustic 100 percenter) H. L. Mencken...
...reviewing the book, Mr. Pennypacker says. "Older men whose hearts are young and memories keen and younger men whose blood is hot and spirits high, should read this book; but especially are its pages commended to anxious parents and college professors who are earnestly seeking to follow where the light of duty leads and who sincerely dread best interest in play and recreation smother and stifle the intellectual life...
...Ehlert, SinclairMacomber, Turner, Shapiro c. c. McLaughlin, FurbushC. H. Bradford, Daniell, Laimbeer r.g. l.g. Wiley, FrankNash, Pratt, Fordyce r.t. t.l. MullenSaltonstall, Adie, Baldwin r.e. l.e. JonesCheek, Stafford, McGlone q.b. q.b. RiceCrosby, Moseley, Zarakov, Hamen l.h.b. r.h.b. Schaefer, McNeilMiller, Puffer, Moseley, Barbee r.h.b. l.h.b. WhittemoreCoady, Howe f.b. f.b. Krugel, Keen...
Interest in dynastic affairs, once so keen, has waned. But the anonymous communication printed above illustrates the persistence of the fascination of the ancient game...