Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During the War a lady gave me a Sinn Fein flag for the church and I flew this from the church together with a St. George's flag for England, and a red flag for the International. Those flags afterward became the occasion...
Typical are the above quotes from A Reporter At The Papal Court by Thomas B. Morgan (Longmans, Green, $3) published last week. As might be guessed, fact is that no other correspondent has ever combined such a keen American nose for newsy Papal intimacies with such a respectful Roman nose for bowing reverence to the Holy Apostolic Roman Catholic Church. It is a credit to the intelligence of the Holy See that Mr. Morgan was granted in 1929 what was then the first and is still the only exclusive interview ever given to a journalist by Pius...
...Delacroix was an established painter, a friend of Chopin, Baudelaire, George Sand, already engaged in the speculations and experiments with color and form which have made many critics consider him the father of all modern painting. Copious, passionate, acute, the entries are studded with keen sidelights on Paris society, on music, the theatre, politics and science as well...
...Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough to make them yield a pop bottle full of milk, to mount and ride wild horses in a race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with the stirrups tied down as a concession to their sex); Cowboy Billy Keen vaulting over an automobile with two horses; trick Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen knocking a paper bag from the head of an assistant in the course of making a ringer, lighting a match with another ringer: mounted basketball, a game with all the punishing features of water polo, football and a riot...
Like livewire still cameramen (see p. 50), livewire newsreel photographers often go to extraordinary ends for a "new angle." Last week it looked for 50 wild minutes as if Paramount News Photographer Albert Mingalone had, like the AP's Keen, gone...