Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acting Mayor Fred B. Frazier of Chattanooga, Tenn.: "My wife and I received with anxious hands a special delivery letter. It read: 'We have your baby. It will take $3,333.33. She is all right, but last night was cold. We don't know what will happen this cold weather. Be ready with the money when we call you. This is not my writing, so you needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed...
...playground, away from the angry farmers' area.* Current political strategy hints that the President will select the Black Hills of South Dakota or some convenient fishing spot in Wisconsin. To him will be called dirt farmers, farm organizers, midwestern Senators and Representatives. The President will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will ask their suggestions. Meanwhile, a compromise farm bill will be constructed with his approval. Congress will pass it next winter and the President will have solved a tough knot. . . . Such is the predicted strategy. ¶ Paul Claudel, French Ambassador...
Last week the Panama Canal, inland waterway of mighty ships, might well have given a watery chuckle and gurgle; for some profound reason all U. S. officialdom seemed suddenly anxious to view...
This year the Council is anxious that subscriptions to the Fund should be sent in before June 15 in order that a substantial total may be announced at Commencement...
Flying over continents and oceans keeps nations as busy and anxious as mothers whose children are at large in the neighbors fields, playing "sardines" or "Indians." Last week it was Spain's turn to look for missing flyers, Uruguay's to worry. Major Tadeo Larre-Borges and three comrades, the flower of Uruguay's few aviators, had left Casablanca, Spanish Morocco, for Cape Juby, 600 miles further down the West coast of Northern Africa, in a seaplane which they sought to fly across the Atlantic. But they had not turned up at Cape Juby. The Spanish government ordered a search...