Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anyone who isn't keen to help build the Cathedral after seeing and hearing Bishop Manning talk about it doesn't know a good sport when he sees one .... The thing that I am afraid of is that somebody will think he is doing God Almighty a favor by contributing to the Cathedral...
...Shevlin says that boyhood ambition to excel in athletics was formerly the incentive that led athletes to take up boxing. While these men were young they boxed in the local gymnasium in a keen but friendly manner which developed that instructive knack of ring generalship that is so necessary in the making of a champion. This type of boxer was the product of the city neighborhood athletic club...
...purely technical reaction has occurred. Meanwhile, industrial and commercial news continues to grow more favorable. Commodity prices at wholesale are experiencing a sharp rise. Gasoline is being marked up. The steel industry is operating at about 85% capacity, while other metallic industries are doing well. Automobile companies, despite keen competition, anticipate good business this coming year. Except for a handful of roads, among them the St. Paul, the railroad outlook is singularly good. Moreover, the absence of sensation in business at present is a sign of continued rather than merely brief prosperity...
...been long in America, but he is a keen observer. Few things escape him. The largest cities, the tallest buildings, the fastest railroads, the colleges, the newest books, the latest fads Mr. I is all ears as he hears Americans string superlative epithets end on end with that naivete which implies that the largest, the tallest, the fastest, the richest, the newest, the latest, must of necessity be the best...
Blanche Bates offered her usual determined and consciously complete performance. Elliott Cabot who, with Robert Benchley, is the most promising of the younger Harvard actors, made a keen impression on the critics. Quite the best of the troupe was Ruth Gordon (Lola Pratt in Seventeen). She wandered in occasionally as the little girl from up the street and quite pulled the play from the grasp of the Partridge family...