Word: keening
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...negotiated Soviet recognition exactly in time to blanket with its headlines news of the then ugly farm strike. He had exacted some sort of religious guarantees from the Soviet Union, which on paper made pious U. S. citizens rejoice. And he had picked as his Ambassador to Moscow, keen, dynamic, ambitious William Christian Bullitt of Philadelphia...
Today France has a tall, keen, young Premier who goes to Scotland every season to shoot grouse. This trivial fact was of vast, imponderable weight last week. It enabled tall Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin to rank as a gentleman and a sportsman in the eyes of the tall Britons with whom he had come to negotiate. They got on famously-so well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego...
Since to hand over the Saar is a complex business, the Council left all details to Premier Benito Mussolini's keen henchman at Geneva, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Chairman of the League's Saar Committee (TIME, Dec. 17). If the Committee gets bogged before Feb. 15, Baron Aloisi will ask the Council to meet in extraordinary session, cut Gordian knots...
...stuck into the broad belt to any other kind, and preferred cutting with these same knives a cold fowl or a piece of mountain mutton as it hung in the family larder to sitting down to a properly appointed dinner." At the royal luncheon table, however, His Majesty, a keen, hard aristocrat of the old Italian breed, had no difficulty in keeping up his end with the robust offspring of the storekeeper, the blacksmith and the chieftain...
...between the graduates of the two different types of school. "Let us suppose a group of 60 young men (three groups of 10 from public and three groups of 10 from private schools) assembled for an evening conference at the Yale Club in New York," he said. "Let three keen leaders of youth mingle among this assembly, and let them record their inability to place with any reasonable completeness the high-school boys in one group, and the private school boys in another. It could not be done...