Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news that the only Priest-Prime Minister in Europe has resigned; nor does it seem worth printing that his resignation is attributed in Vienna and Rome to a "suggestion" from Pope Pius XI. Undeserving of a line is the fact that there are in Austria two irregular armies, both anxious to try a bloody bout for Power. It is not even worth explaining that at the root of the political crisis there is a law-championed by the Communists and fought by the Catholics-which today enables the working people of Vienna to rent houses for next to nothing...
Temporary seizure of diplomatic liquor en route from Baltimore to the Siamese legation had created an Incident that put the foreign corps in Washington on edge (TIME, March 25). Anxious to quiet ambassadorial nerves, the State Department obtained from the Treasury Department a red-taped but definite ruling that embassy liquor could be transported by private U.S. trucks and drivers without Federal molestation, provided an accredited diplomat was actually aboard the vehicle...
Most of these cinema taxpayers were only too anxious to meet large penalty assessments rather than criminal charges. A large migration from Hollywood to the Treasury Department may be shortly anticipated...
...short, principal street is a building labeled The Foreign Club, a title which means nothing. Inside are crowded tables, covered with green cloths. On these tables anxious tourists play roulette, blackjack, poker, craps...
Last week, rumor linked two old Standard Oil units in a $1,000,000,000 merger. Oldest (1866) of existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard of New York makes fuel (Socony gasoline), the two companies do not compete. Hence, the Department of Justice may approve their reunion...