Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brewer's Horses. For his services, Mr. Speaker Morrison will get a salary of ?5,000 ($14,000) a year and, on retirement, a peerage. A keen fiddler and a braw man with the pipes, Shakes will have ample room to practice in the oak-paneled rooms of the Speaker's House in the Palace of Westminster, overlooking the Thames. Alone among British subjects, the Speaker holds levees at which court dress (breeches and orders for men, formal gowns for women) is worn. M.P.s must bow to him when entering and leaving the House. It is only when...
Your excellent Oct. 8 story on the Ensor exhibition reported that our friends, New York's Museum of Modern Art, put on the show. As a trustee of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, keen to see credit go where credit is due, may I point out that the Modern Museum and the Institute have been associated in this undertaking, but that the Institute was wholly responsible for organizing the show, and that its director, James S. Plaut, has conducted negotiations with the Belgian government ever since 1947 to win permission for most of Ensor's important...
Although Closed College and Open University have never met in football, there has always been a keen rivalry between these teams. Speaking for the H.A.A.'s Business Department, Carroll F. Getchell told the CRIMSON last night that he was very glad" such a game could be arranged...
...spokesman for U.S. Judaism, no central authority, no High Priest. All good Jews, in varying degrees of literalness, believe in the Law, but U.S. Judaism is a spectrum shading off by minute gradations from ultra-orthodoxy to ultra-modernism. In this spectrum, Finkelstein, a traditionalist with one keen, dark eye on the future, stands almost dead center...
Friedrich, recently back from a long trip to Europe, corroborated reports that the French are keen on having the Germans in N.A.T.O. but still strongly against having German troops serve in a German national army...