Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broad theory, I will never admit that our company broke the Jacksonville agreement ? admitting that I do not know any of the details . . ." answered Mr. Schwab. "I'm just a plain, blunt steel worker out of the mills of Pittsburgh, but no man here is more anxious to help in the situation than...
...polemics, one feels that the author faces martyrdom every time he sits down to his typewriter. Now the Mexican lady accuses this land of being the home not of liberty, but of license. The detractors swing from one side of the balance to the other. The bewildered American, anxious to find out just what he is, can hope for no aid from such wild-eyed charges. Perhaps the mean difference of the accusations is as near the truth as erring human kind can reason...
...Well, don't say too much about that, for everybody in Cleveland will be kidding me about it. But I am awfully anxious to get back to flying again. It's much safer than driving an automobile, at least for me. I'd feel safer flying a ship to Columbus* than driving a car. But you know how wives...
...Bokanowski, rose to defend the bill. He did not deny that the Cabinet had received protests and intimations from Standard Oil of New Jersey, Royal Dutch Shell and Anglo-Persian Oil. Rising superior to this fact, he cried: "The State does not know the importers! The State is merely anxious to provision the Nation with oil to the best advantage...
...Author claims only to be "a common or garden variety of person," anxious about the welfare of his family, and unable to master income tax returns. Born 42 years ago in Greensboro, N. C., (O. Henry's birthplace) he did an educational zigzag from kindergarten in Berlin to college in Denver. From childhood he was taught to paint, but during a winter (1908-09) in Paris at the Academic Julien, he began to write stories, ignoring many an art class to wrestle with plots. He has written well over a hundred short stories many of which have been published...