Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some purposes other than curiosity for journeying so far from home. Manxman Crookall and his lieutenant, Manxman Richard Cain, wished to induce the government of the U. S. to make a special proviso in its immigration quota for incoming Manxmen. Said A. B. Crookall: "Our young men are anxious to come to this country. We want a quota like the Irish Free State and Scotland...
...Shuberts, too, seem anxious to bring culture to the musical stage. Their first offering is to be White Lilacs, an operetta based on the life of Chopin and accompanied by arrangements of his melodies. It is interesting to observe that Broadway's most potent brothers never seem to get left very far behind. While Harris and White and The Guild, all comparatively new competitors, leap ahead with inspiration, the Shuberts gallop steadily along, always good-natured and always ready to accept the new thing without growls and murmurs. Their faces have none of the melancholy which distinguishes that...
Last week, as shrewd observers had expected, the operation was called off. The mother of the twins became anxious and the girls hobbled away from their hospital to their home in Holyoke, Mass. With them they had a fat contract for 15 weeks in vaudeville; not, however, with Press-agent Turner's organization but with its rival, Keith...
...many as 500 anxious women attended prayer-meetings during the week at Houston, to beseech their God to prevent the Smith nomination. After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition...
...rate war loomed as anxious presidents noted that under the joint schedule of the Illinois Central and the Redwood Line, manufacturers could ship steel from Chicago to New Orleans (912 miles) as cheaply as from Buffalo to New York (390 miles). "Unduly preferential," they cried, technically. They explained: Eastern railroads should serve Eastern shippers, benefiting by short rail hauls to the Atlantic, low water rates to the Pacific. Cutthroat reductions by the I.C.R.R. will divert traffic to Chicago, thence to New Orleans, thence by the Redwood Line to the coast...