Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the water now, easily, smoothly, gently, like a thing alive and yet afraid of violent exertion. The Vagabond rose and walked shoreward, his heart, full of joy. The days of winter were over, his duties done for a spell, his heart and his mind and his senses all keen to go down...
...They crossed the sea crusaders keen to help...
...went into reverse; the Ford went forward, but the two cars still clung together lovingly. The undergraduate, in desperation, looked around for help. At that moment up stepped no less a personage than William Yandell Elliot, professor of Government, and adviser to President Roosevelt. Scanning the situation with a keen, academic perspicacity, Professor Elliot concluded that only one measure would do the trick--manual labor...
Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, of Scarsdale, N. Y., has been chosen this year's Ivy Orator by the 1938 Class Day Committee, it was announced last night. Competition between Benchley and Timothy J. Reardon, Jr. '38 was so keen that the committee was unable to choose between the two after Tuesday's trials, and a further one was held yesterday afternoon. Reardon was named as alternate...
...just as full of false scents and wasted motion. Playwrights Fields & Chodorov have used about 33 of the famed 36 original plots, scrambled them into doodlebug farce, peppered them with gags. Underneath the roughhousing is a healthy contempt for the method in Hollywood's madness, a keen eye for skulduggery. But compared with a Once in a Lifetime or a Boy Meets Girl, Schoolhouse on the Lot is too loud, too loopy, too larruping...