Word: keening
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...desks, which lacks two drawers, sits a dreary-looking little man with keen eyes, thinning blond hair, deep lines around his mouth. He wears a grey alpaca office coat. He is Arthur Francis Corrigan, 44, "boss" of the press room and dean of legmen in The Times Square and Hell's Kitchen districts. Last week the press room boys gave "the boss" a party because he had just rounded out 20 years on the job, ten of them at West Side Court. A magistrate was toastmaster, two others made speeches. Six deputy district attorneys, many a police inspector, dozens...
...Have college men a sense of humor? Sometimes it's too keen. Their reaction to humor is not disciplined enough. They come to a show to have a good time and spoil the amusement by being too exuberant and laughing in advance of the joke...
Deter him it did not. Having listened to testimony from both sides for two days the bald, keen-eyed judge squared off with a spontaneous oral opinion which lasted five hours. Excerpts: "Now if this agricultural act, this AAA or QYZ or whatever it is-I cannot remember those names-is constitutional, if they are not invading the rights of private citizens, why, of course, they have the right to go on. If it is not constitutional and if it is a usurpation of power, then a citizen has a right . . . to ask the court to tell these gentlemen...
Opposed by a galaxy of national track and field stars in the open events the Harvard winter track men entered in the Boston Athletic Association games held in the Boston Garden tonight at 7.30 o'clock will find competition of a super-keen order. The meet will round into mid-season form the Crimson runners, and place them in a fine fettle for the coming triangular meet with Dartmouth-Cornell on December...
Scholar-Writer Bliss Perry retired almost three years ago and Humanist Irving Babbitt died last July, but Harvard still has giants in its English department. One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement. He is perhaps the most brilliant U. S. example of the great scholar-teacher whom President Conant wants on his faculty. Another giant is snowy-bearded George Lyman Kittredge, 73, bon vivant, Chaucer and Shakespeare authority, prime link between Harvard's past & present...