Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 40 or 50 convicts go "up the river" every day. But last week New York Central employees noticed a sudden burst of activity. Between 90 and 110 crooks per day were getting off at Sing Sing, and the strange part of it was, all of them seemed cheerful, anxious to reach their destination. It seemed almost like a stampede for incarceration-and that is what...
Nine years ago, an anxious group of these same Bretons of St. Nazaire strained their eyes toward the sea to catch the first glimpse of the liner that was bringing the vanguard of American troops to France. Last week, with French and American warships roaring salutes, with Breton peasants waving American flags, with General Pershing, Admiral Gleaves, Ambassador Herrick, and General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread...
...million striking British coal miners (TIME, May 10, et seq.) all beginning to feel the pinch of living upon meagre union doles, awaited with anxious expectancy last week Premier Baldwin's long heralded address to the Commons outlining proposed legislation to end the strike...
...representatives of the Anglican and Free Churches of England recently gathered in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London did not attend. But Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was there, presided, deprecated as usual all divergence from established customs, cried: "We have just passed through anxious times [the general strike; TIME, May 10 et seq.] . . . defeated industrial Bolshevism. . . . Let us defeat ecclesiastical Bolshevism." The gathering was merely an expression of opinion...
...Anxious to hold out as long as possible, A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation, took it upon himself to accept 2,500,000 rubles ($1,250,000) which were cabled last week to the British miners' "strike fund" by Moscow labor groups. Britons tut-tutted at this, recalling how the Trada Union Council which directed the "general strike" had gained much approbation by refusing a similar Russian contribution (TIME, May 17). The Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, thereupon created a sensation by announcing that the Trade Union Council could not have accepted the Russian...