Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandy-haired Donald Erb, a keen football fan, golfer and fisherman, last week made a diplomatic beginning. Said he: "I do not feel that I am stepping into a political cauldron...
Interviewed by the London Daily Express, the victorious Viscount reminisced: "Miss Royle used to enjoy watching the train in action. When it came to making carriages she was not so keen. I would often get into trouble for working on them instead of taking her to a cinema. Then there were all the tools for making the coaches-special tools for working in miniature. With them I could run up a coach in a fortnight. In fact, experts have congratulated me on some of the coaches I have made. One day I hope to make a model locomotive. I have...
Said Critic Lewis Gannett, emerging from the Fair: "Not all the keen wits of all the 110 publishers frantically pursuing manuscripts can discover 10,000 books worth printing in one year. . . ." In bringing out books they know they cannot sell profitably, publishers have likened their dilemma to that of a man shoveling on a dying fire coal that he knows contains a lot of slate. If he stops shoveling, the fire will go out; if he keeps on, the slate may smother it. Only one book in ten sells 20,000 copies, only six novels in ten sell...
There was no substitute for Handsome Dan on Saturday and Yale ingenuity was unable to make one up. Ducky Pond isn't so keen on mascots anyway, getting mildly irascible during last year's Princeton game when a bulldog that looked remarkably like his own was aired in the Palmer Stadium before the Princeton ganie. It was learned that it belonged to Ed Leader, Yale's crew mentor, and, at that, the score was too close for any degree of comfort...
...Sample: A lassy named Aberthwaite, Joan On lim'ricks was especially keen, But she never could cope With Lim'ricks on soap For lim'ricks are dirty, soap clean...