Word: keen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to Iceman's Director Eddie Dowling, the actors, who at first were as shy as O'Neill, "warmed up to him after the first ten minutes; they knew he belongs in the theater." They "adored" him because his response was so keen, because he was so gentle and appreciative, and so quick to smile when anyone did something well. When he arrived late for a rehearsal, which rarely happened, they kept asking about him. Says Dowling: "They miss him when he's not there...
Besides being the greatest football coach of his day, Rockne was a chemistry prof and a keen student of human emotions. He was also one of the greatest showmen since P. T. Barnum. With names like Madigan, McMullan, Murphy and Moynihan in his lineup, he dressed his men in Kelly green (the colors of Notre Dame are blue & gold) and they became famous as the Fighting Irish...
Labor grew restive. Always keen to get into Monterrey, the Mexican Confederation of Labor (CTM) struck a key glass factory last June, forced the Government to seize it and satisfy worker demands. The Government still runs the plant, reputedly at a big loss. Some regiomontanos favor starting another plant like it and running the Government out of business. Others see changing times, the first threat of expropriation...
...unexpected humor, unfaltering analytical acuity, a beautifully keen emotional sensibility and such steely, abundant natural vigor as to afford that extra half-ounce of energy which compels immediate assent. . . . 'Unfaltering! Unflagging!'-these are the epithets that his performance most obviously requires. Other actors are in this or that phase of Lear's progress from worldly to spiritual dominion the peers of Mr. Olivier, but no actor that we can recall has matched the creative stamina which enables Mr. Olivier to rise equal to the demands of every phase...
...crony, Cartoonist Ham Fisher, Flagg has a thorned rose: "He is so keen, so well informed; his wit is sharp and his imaginative humor is boundless-it is incredible that none of all this ever gets into his strip of 'comic stuff' called [Joe] Palooka...