Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the report was current, officials received applications from ten hardy persons anxious to succeed Mr. Elliott. One man said, "I want to better myself." This man, who meant that he sought to make a better living, had doubtless heard that Executioner Elliott receives $150 per corpse; had perhaps read that Executioner Elliott earned, in a single day in 1927, $900 for giving "jolts" to three Massachusetts convicts in the morning, in the evening three more in New York...
...Russia is a very easy country to find out about," he said, "as the government authorities are anxious to have you see their experiment. The difficulty lies in the facts themselves, as you will discover so many contrasts in them. The reason is that Russia has a primitive culture; there is much ignorance, drunkenness and superstition. On the other hand the new regime, consisting of a small minority of the population, is trying to infuse life with the most modern problem of politics. It is discouraging when you see what an enormous task the people have set themselves, because they...
...emphatic antithetical views on the subject. For the Esthonian philospher, in advancing not only the opinion that America is governed by the feminine sex but that America's problem is "the emancipation of men, rather than the emancipation of women," presents an European point of view which the anxious male cannot entirely disregard if he is at all concerned over maintaining the supremacy of his kind...
...Anxious to lift the conversation to a higher plane, a lady from a Boston paper inquired whether Sir Thomas thought that jazz had affected the culture and life of manhood, "in the deeper sense of the word...
Looking harassed and anxious, Secretary Wilbur spent Christmas even seeing and hearing more for himself at Provincetown. He ordered the S-4 to be salvaged straightway. The divers tunneled under the S-4 in two places, to attach lifting chains. The Atlantic raged, delaying the work...