Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover added: "I am anxious to clear up the twilight zone, as far as we can between authoritative and quotable material, on one hand, and such material as I am able to give from time to time for purely background purposes on the other...
...York, docked the S. S. Berengaria with 28,000 passengers nameless on the ship's list. Fourteen anxious attendants, with due care and speed, disembarked 28,000 canaries...
...happened during the past week at the Council meeting at Geneva would indicate that too great hopes are not justified. Stresemann, the German foreign minister, was obliged by pressure at home to put the question on the agenda, but it was clear from the beginning that he was anxious to avoid raising the question in a larger way, in order not to compromise the reparations negotiations which are in progress. The Poles, knowing that the Germans would not be willing to have the question become acute, have been pressing for action, in the hope that the whole problem could...
Early in 1927 Mr. Hoover, casting an anxious eye over the prospective political battleground, beheld Mr. Brown wasting his talents on the Ohio air. He called him to Washington officially as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, unofficially as a campaign manager. Mr. Brown put his candidate in the Ohio presidential primaries, where defeat would have been certain had not Death scratched his rival, Senator Frank B. Willis...
...Bognor village a carpenter stood tip-toe on the counter of a toyshop, nailing shelves to the wall. Glancing casually down under his arm, he was aghast to see his Queen. Her Majesty had just entered with Princess Mary in search of gifts for a charity bazaar. The carpenter, anxious to show respect, tried to doff his cap, but only succeeded in knocking it off. Grabbing for it, he dropped his hammer. The hammer struck his saw, lying on a board, and all crashed to the floor with a great clatter of ironmongery. In an agony of mortification, the carpenter...