Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king who spends more thought on the government of 16 statues than any ruler has ever spent upon a million living subjects, Capablanca, using the royal idiom, explained his downfall. Said he: ". . . We are not as strong as we were a few years ago. . . . We are very anxious to try to prove that we are yet capable of at least holding our own against anybody in the world.... As to our adversary, he has evidently played better than we. . . ." The game of chess, Capablanca hinted, had become so formalised that it was perhaps possible for an expert to draw every...
...Coolidge experienced a genuine burst of temper and indignation when, last week, President Pierson and the Chamber again called for a $400,000,000 tax cut. President Pierson said that a referendum of all the Chambers of Commerce had backed their rational executives' program 90% strong. The Chamber was anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that budget law obliges the Treasury to eschew deficits...
Explanation lies in the fact that Italians were becoming anxious, last fortnight, over the signing of an accord between France and Jugoslavia in mid-November. If so great a Power as France was throwing her prestige upon the side of Italy's potential enemy, Jugoslavia, then it behooved Signor Mussolini to trumpet that Italy is unafraid and not unbefriended...
Here in the ancient metropolis of England, A. J. Cook took over the command of his army after its 11-day march from Wales, he having marched only part of two days with them. Anxious London "bobbies" gave them unnecessary protection as they swung through the main streets to the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar square, where a Labor Magna Charta was read. There followed a meeting with Labor...
Among the thousands who poured into the Holland Tunnel on Saturday, anxious to pass under the Hudson River for the first time, none was so stirred at the romance of the accomplished feat as would have been another man who was not there. It was decreed that the body of Clifford Holland, who planned and supervised all of the work, should have arrived in New York City from a Michigan rest cure camp on the day that the last of the river bottom barrier separating east and west tunnels was blown apart. Thus was ended the career that began with...