Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like 'Peaches'," Bob Lampoon told a Crimson reporter yesterday at his home 22 Grand Street. "It's just like he was going around with his own daughter. She ain't so good-looking either, but she knows what's what. I reckon her to be about 20, and just anxious to get into the public's eye. She's just silly, and I don't know why so many women rush to that there court to hear all that trash. But its 'spicy' and that's what the women want. I wouldn't advise anyone to hang around court rooms...
...college educations are not wasted, although there be many misfits in the advanced educational palaces of today, and consequently he does not, as some may claim, attempt to repel the surging wave of American youth into the colleges, professional and technical schools which may or may not be anxious to harbor them. His objective, as connoted by his versed opinions seems to be this, that a clear understanding of what real education is, may be gained, just where to look for it, and just who is fit for advanced education, and who will better serve his community and himself...
...shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water, in a distant Bronx apartment, in fact, lives David Farjeon, 10. Last week the Manhattan music world waited, more or less anxious, to hear a musical setting he had composed for Poet Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Ethel Hayden, soprano, was scheduled to sing it at Carnegie Hall...
...over the surface were detached from the background. Although the pieces were for the most part in place, a few of them through careless handing, had failed out of place and were found underneath other parts. To many the picture seemed a hopeless wreck, but the Museum authorities were anxious to acquire it, as even in its injured condition it was of value and significance...
...death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative, and are even inclined on occasion to feel a distinct sensation of guilt. No doubt these apostles of individual meditation have the friendliest of intentions. But they forget that even a smile under some circumstances may drive a man to madness and that their innocent promenade...