Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general election. Canadian statesmen have been thwarted, hamstrung in their efforts to govern during the past year by a strangling deadlock between Liberals and Conservatives. Would the new election break this deadlock and give either Liberals or Conservatives a workable majority? Canadians pondered that question last week with an anxious, even prayerful, interest...
...Pilot R. Carl Oelze of the Naval Reserve had the temerity to ascend in his plane to 2,500 ft., jerk the strings of a monster parachute folded in the fuselage behind the cockpit, shut off his motor and let the plane plunge toward the ground like a plummet. Anxious watchers saw a white mushroom suddenly billow above the dropping craft. With a jerk, the plane's fall was retarded to a comparatively gradual downward float, about 38 ft. per second. At first there was a sideways swing to the suspended plane, then it hung even below its straining...
...King-Albert, now Dictator of Belgium (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Protest. Delegations of Belgian hotel men waited upon His Majesty last week, petitioned him not to sign a decree increasing the tax on foreigners' hotel bills in Belgium 20%. The King was informed by many an anxious boniface that tourists will not flock to Belgium if the present inducements of free visas and low taxes are curtailed. "World Crime Wave." The First International Conference on Penal Law assembled at Brussels last week with a roster of delegates from 40 nations, including a representative of the U. S. National...
Eleven thousand anxious boys and girls watched last week, as they had already watched for a fortnight, for the postman. But even when he came they turned away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that...
Premier Baldwin (rising to reply to Laborite insinuations that he owned 200,000 shares in the great iron manufactory, Baldwin's Ltd., and was therefore biased toward the coal owners and anxious to break the strike at the miners' expense) : "I hold the shares in question. That is absolutely true, and they represent the bulk of what I have. ... I might have been a rich man today had I sold' those shares during the War and transferred the proceeds into foreign securities...