Word: keening
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...work of more publicized painters, whose attempts have been periodically placed on the pages of such magazines as "Life," "Coronet," and "Esquire." Miss Mackay's use of color is perhaps a but obvious; here paintings are neither exciting nor awe-inspring, yet they contain within them signs of sincerity, keen observation, and the ability to assimilate styles of better artists without the sullying of her own individuality...
...tragedy it was, and not long in brewing, either. Dixie and the North were themselves contented, drugged with prosperity and enervated after the struggle in Congress. But they had, both of them, a cruelly keen cutting edge, and they were all time forcing the blades ruthlessly into slavery, that new land, and extremists in both way with Kansas. It was beautiful land, the richest prairie of all the continent, with the finest farmland, and the broadest rivers. For a decade and more it had been criss-crossed by the trails of the pioneers--the Santa Fe, the Oregon...
...dreadful setback thorough-breeding suffered during World War I, owners of laboriously trained hunting and shooting dogs and breeders of show dogs sent many of their prize specimens to Australia, Canada and the U. S. Last week many U. S. dog lovers were helping keep British hounds' noses keen, setters' coats shiny, poodles' hindquarters plucked. In Nashville, Tenn., Spur Oil Co.'s President Mason Houghland has begun regularly to hunt twelve and a half couples from the pack - famed for their hybrid Welsh traits of nose, voice, homeliness - of Master W. W. B. Scott...
Birthdays. Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee, U. S. A., retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President...
...outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...