Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soccer team, cheated out of its game at Worcester last week by wet grounds, will meet the school boys on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The cancellation of the first game has given both teams an extra week to prepare for the contest, and a keen struggle will result. Worcester defeated the 1926 team last year and with several veterans back has more than an even chance to repeat the victory...
...field, the prospects are especially bright on account of the wealth of material from last year's Freshman nine. Slayton, Todd, Casto, Burton, Knowlton, and Allen have all shown promise and should give the more seasoned veterans keen competition for their positions...
...with its instantaneous appeal to the music lover needs no preparation. Such is not the fact. To know the plot, the libretto, the national school by which the opera is produced, whether it be Italian, French, German, or Russian--these things make all the difference between passive enjoyment or keen active cooperation. So much emphasis is laid nowadays on intelligent appreciation. Mr. Isaacson's talk will offer a wonderful opportunity for all lovers of opera to get much more out of hearing it than would be the case without the previous knowledge and understanding upon which to base each performance...
...brothers-her ruinous beauty-the tragic end of it all and the tremendous last fight where the sons of Usna, caught in Conachur's treacherous net, were conquered at last by magic, after slaying their hundreds. And Deirdre died on her young husband's body, singing their keen. A beautiful retelling of one of the finest folk-tales in the world...
Unfortunately, the Guild erred in their usual keen judgment of players. Phyllis Povah is far too wholesome in the leading part, lacking entirely the cutting edge of bitterness to make the character convincing. The remainder of the cast, however, were shrewdly chosen. Particularly competent was the veteran Guild actress Helen Westley (laconic mother who preferred as conversational material lobster salad to liberalism...