Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston offers a lucrative field for the business of vice. Competition is keen. Thriving "places of business" crowd one another in Boston's South End. Philadelphia and New York rings vie with local operatives for the Boston trade. But last week the Boston vice industry suffered a slump. Federal agents descended on South End "houses." The hostesses, forewarned, had fled. Only two women were taken in: Rose ("Rosie Big Lips") Restant and Pauline ("Queen Polly") Levine...
...janitors and scrub-ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem at ease; others older, bigger, surer. To pop-eyed newcomers, college presidents and school heads droned speeches about "intellectual curiosity." "the academic heritage," "The Future." It was the beginning of another School Year...
...bank charter received cable-grams from Governor Émile Moreau of the Bank of France. In the case of the Allied Powers, M. Moreau was told whom to invite by the governors of the respective banks of issue who all chose financiers from within their own organizations. Thus keen, patrician Montagu Collet Nor:nan, Governor of the Bank of England, chose a famed member of its board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests throughout ; Asia, is chairman of :the Hongkong & Shanghai...
...Duce on the March to Rome in 1922, when he seized power, were given Cabinet posts last week. General Emilio De Bono, veteran of the Lybian and World Wars received the important Ministry of Colonies. General Italo Balbo, the leading Italian authority on military aviation, a clever flyer, a keen observer who visited the U. S. last year, was made Minister of Aviation. Michele Bianchi, one of Signor Mussolini's oldest friends and colleague of the days when they both edited Socialist newspapers, received the Ministry of Public Works...
...commercial customers. Said Mr. Reynolds: "There are innumerable instances where a company is not entitled to commercial bank credit . . . and is in no position to go to the securities market. . . . Yet it is entirely sound and worthy of banking cooperation. . . . We know from experience that there is keen need for this additional banking service, that it is entirely sound and extremely lucrative. . . . There will be [in Continental Chicago Corp.] nothing of the speculative activity in which many of the present organizations [investment trusts] are prominent and which will undoubtedly, occasion difficulty unless it is abandoned." It appeared, therefore, that Continental...