Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House of Commons. The Government's proposal for a naval base at Singapore was passed under closure (curtailment of debate) after a keen discussion...
...North American delegation included Dr. William W. Keen, of Philadelphia, " dean of American surgeons "; Dr. William J. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., and Dr. Frederick G. Banting, of Toronto, discoverer of insulin. The Prince officially welcomed the delegates and extended congratulations to Dr. Keen, the recent President of the Society, " who, despite the 86 years he carries so lightly, and the weight of his world-wide reputation, is again among us to participate in every meeting of this distinguished gathering." Lord Curzon was gratified that the Congress had chosen to meet in England for the first time. Professor Giordano, of Vienna...
...understood that the British and French Governments are taking a keen interest in the progress of affairs. Both Governments are behind the United States in the present deliberations and both would welcome recognition of Mexico by the U. S. Government. Of course, their own nationals are affected by article 27 of the 1917 Mexican Constitution, which reserves the subsoil rights of Mexico exclusively to Mexican citizens...
Leaving these trenchant remarks behind him, " the sphinx in the soft felt hat" departed. Colonel House, although a keen observer, does not often set down his observations, especially about men. He might well be called a Boswell without a pen. In his youth, according to the well known story in the Mirrors of Washington, he went to Hopkins School in New Haven, intending to enter Yale. But when his friend Morton (son of the Democratic Governor of Indiana) failed to pass the entrance examinations for Yale, young House followed his friend to Cornell...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...