Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whiskey peer's petite daughter stalling her huge Daimler Double Six in traffic at Picadilly Circus. . . A stout soprano anxiously cranking her Ford backward in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French...
...Moscow at Peking and cabled, "This correspondent happens to know that the Communist Party's politbureau has been advocating far less Communism in China than its enemies care to admit." He continued that the Soviet Government is convinced of the impracticability of communizing China, at present, but is anxious to foster the development of Chinese Nationalism, a force directed against the Occident...
...heroine, Annette, has her illegitimate son by Roger Brissot. In Summer (VoL II) she continues her emotional development, with three men, none of whom is quite the right one. Presumably, happiness awaits her in Vol. IV, now being prepared. Author Rolland, feminist as well as pacifist, is anxious to make Annette self-sufficient, Woman triumphant. With his gathering years, however, his writing shows a less continuous alertness to the boundary which divides emotion from sentimentality...
...galleries were packed with peers; Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England and many another stalwart banker and businessman gave anxious heed to the chancellor's words. The Treasury, he announced, faced a deficit of $182,500,000 on last year's finances; $160,000,000 of this was due to the two strikes. The national expenditures for 1927, Chancellor Churchill estimated at $4,091,950,000; to meet them the country faces new taxes to yield an additional $175,000,000 to $200,000,000. Winebibbers, fag-puffers groaned; increased duties on imported wines, tobacco leaf...
While weather-bound golfers in less temperate zones were overhauling their kits, anxious to set foot on soggy, shaggy courses...