Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedy of human nature would seem to require fine character-drawing, and this we have--in the first act. The mystic poet of the soil, Beem Sprattling, seeker after Truth in the subtract, follower of the "Oninvisible and the Onbeheord-of," keen admirer of "this fine pretty world," and frequent tenant of the county jail, is introduced with delightful effect. There are also the native flapper, Goldy, and her dangling swain, Roosh. A pleasing picture of the two old people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent...
...past years keen competition between these teams has resulted in all star inter-class combinations playing against representative teams from the Law and Business schools. The floor at Hemenway will be free Friday afternoon of this week, and every day beginning Tuesday. Any member of the University may enter...
...however, while he lived. His satire was too keen to be appreciated by these at whom it was aimed. Professor Wright told a story of a great noble who said to the king of France, who was wondering why Moliere's play "Le Tartuffe" should have been banned while a seemingly more sacrilegious play, "Scaramouche", was countenanced...
...eleven years preceding 1916--although the recent lack of complete success is not unfamiliar. But apparently, lacrosse has achieved a gruesome and quite undeserved reputation for savage ferocity, and even the boldest spirits are dismayed by the prospect. The result has been small squads and necessarily, less keen competition for the positions and less material from which to draw...
...leader of the lost in a new wilderness wandering; and the debates of Congress furnish the tediousness of a new Numbers. But the discussion that is already arising over the proposal that Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" be designated the American Psalms gives an indication of the keen competition that faces aspirants for a position in this modernistic All-American...