Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week 400 young women made a polite but determined entrance into a room on the 22nd floor of the Hotel Barbizon. They were dressed in their anxious best. They were members of the Junior League of America and they were visiting their new national headquarters...
...Dover and arranged his discreet conveyance to a small estate in Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that...
...With anxious, heavy hearts the 70 most potent newspaper editors in Italy crossed Rome's broad Piazza Colonna, last week, entered the gloomy, high ceilinged Palazzo Chigi, and waited in trepidation to be re- ceived by Il Capo...
...into every hamlet, and to every ward, and to every purlieu of a large city, and use the leverage of an intermittently lax and strict enforcement of the law against would-be dealers in liquor and their patrons, he will wield a sinister power, prospect of which should make anxious the friends of free constitutional government...
...will be interesting to now that the open season for attractive ybung males is on in Boston, whether the deplorable lack of interest in outside activity will limit the number of stags at the Somerset during the long winter evenings. Anxious motherhood may well feel an unusual apprehension in view of the widespread rumor that students are now interested in studies. If Harvard men forsake the ball-room, this last infirmary for noble minds, and refuse to go, marching in close order to answer a maiden's prayer, undergraduate interest in things intellectual will Indeed be permanently confirmed...