Word: keening
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Trained in guarding the reserved section, the usher's keen eye can discriminate between Sargent and Radcliffe students. "You can always tell a Sargent girl. She is not especially dignified and never wears a hat. The Radcliffe girls have a less carefree air and a more preoccupied look. But whether from Sargent or Radcliffe, any group of girls is bound to mean trouble for an usher. Girls may be quiet when they come in two's or three's, but a crowd of girls makes a greater racket than any group of male adolescents...
...Overseers could not have made a happier choice. There were many worried faces in Wall Street when to this earnest young professor was assigned the task of helping to tame the Stock Exchange. There could be no question of the adequacy of his background of learning or of the keen edge of his mind. He had been called the most brilliant student at Harvard Law School since the days of Justice Brandeis. But what of his knowledge of human nature, his impartiality, his willingness to learn...
...succeed him, Secretary Morgenthau selected Frank Wilson, a keen-looking sleuth with a sharp inquiring nose and glittering spectacles. New Chief Wilson dug up the income tax evasion evidence which sent Al Capone to prison, traced and identified in court the Lindbergh ransom money. His assistant will be Joseph Edward Murphy, who was Chief Moran's aide until last summer when he got himself, his department and Secretary Morgenthau into an intra-Cabinet snarl by setting Secret Servants on the trail of G-Men suspected of murdering criminals without giving them a chance to surrender (TIME...
...wife followed him to the grave. Inheritance taxes of $500,000 forced Son Oliver to stop living at Lulling-stone Castle, family seat of the Hart Dykes for almost 300 years. Enterprising Lady Hart Dyke promptly started a silkworm factory in Lullingstone Castle. "I've been very keen on silkworms since I was seven years old," she explained last week, "and later I began to study them experimentally. If I get sufficient support from manufacturers, we hope to have a flourishing industry...
Times-Union and Eagle split about even on circulation, found the advertising competition of Manhattan's tabloids and Hearst's "Brooklyn editions" keen. About two months ago the Eagle and the Times-Union announced a combination rate which gave advertisers insertions in both papers at the cost of one. Last week's merger, no surprise in view of this advertising deal, meant that Publisher Peck was to retire from the newspaper field. Still on his hands was the Times-Union shop, not included in the $900,000 deal because the Eagle's present plant, built...