Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pageant of "prep" school boys moved across the U. S.? Mothers (as before) kissed their sons, counted their shirts, sorted socks. Mothers (of heroes) hoped for no broken collar bones. But during the summer the preparatory schools had been preparing. What had they that was new? This the anxious parents asked...
...there is a White House wedding before March, the Coolidge family seemed to have been reduced pretty permanently to two. What Washington wondered was: where will they go, now that he has but to beckon for a lordly income, now that she has grown accustomed to spaciousness? Architects were anxious. Before the White House, the Coolidges were content to live in hotels. Before that it was the two-family house ($32.50 per month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President and First Lady should be established...
...serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
...this year's Nominees for President of the U. S. spent several anxious hours last week on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel La Salle, Chicago. He frowned often, conferred with friends, stared down his nose, hovered near a closed door behind which a meeting of his party's national executive committee was in session...
...Goofus, and we want to know what you think about it. No, not that one. The one we reprinted the other day, with the two yeggs shooting at each other. Yes, that's the one. . . . You haven't thought about it? Well, we're very anxious to have a statement from you, Mr. Goofus...