Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, was anxious to get it passed speedily. He managed to have the Senate start work at 11:00 a. m. instead of at noon, but that did not hasten matters appreciably. He then said that if action did not rapidly speed up he would bring about 12-hour sessions, from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m., with no recess for supper...
...cannot now and will not later accept compulsory arbitration. We do not propose to barter away for a mess of pottage the inherent and individual rights of the anthracite workers. Our people are anxious to work, but not at the price of their freedom and manhood...
...disheartening truth that the world is not yet ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME, Feb. 8, FRANCE...
...esthetic culture and accomplishments as shall tend to refine the manners and elevate the taste, together with careful moral and religious instruction." They were schools founded (St. Paul's was the model for St. Mark's and partly for Groton) to accommodate wealthy and socially scrupulous families. All have anxious and extensive waiting lists. Among Bostonians at least, Groton may be said to have achieved the loftiest prestige of this kind. Its graduates, "Grotties," are unmistakable. They boast: "A Groton man wires to Dr. Peabody as soon as his son is born. Others generally think a letter is quick enough...
...Manhattan, Alexander Stock, concert pianist and accompanist for Metropolitan Opera singers, was riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger...