Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested in ... a few giants . . . We believe in college life, as it is called . . . but we are not interested if this side of college produces only sleek, well-fed bipeds of the genus homo (by courtesy) sapiens, whose most obvious contribution, to a waiting and anxious world is their ability to serve as models of the youth so familiar with ready-made clothing advertisements...
...Rosie's," in New Haven, swiftly became as famous as those other academic stepladders? the late "Widow" Nolan's (into Harvard) and witty John Hun's (into Princeton). Its doors widened to receive, as well as shaky seniors, floundering sub-freshmen anxious for summer work or seeking to continue their studies after expulsion from boarding schools...
...been grilling through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks? Particularly when some of the boys are rich and spoiled, with a suite at the Taft Hotel, another in New York, and a sleek roadster in the garage; or when they are bumptious zanies anxious to impress the loose-lived upperclassmen with whom they find themselves thrown; or full-blooded Nordics soon to go into training? The parental attitude was: our son is unusual (or erratic or talented or temperamental or stupid) and he needs special, individual attention. The Rosenbaum Tutoring School gave him special...
...protective cordon of detectives. Henry Moy protested in advance that although five members of his Tong had been slain in a few days, no reprisals had been taken or would be taken: "We shall not do so, unless driven to it in self-defence. Our society is anxious to obey the law. Hip Sings are law-breakers and cannot be depended on to follow out any instructions given by the authorities toward the suppression of disorder...
...dissolved and re-elected at any time upon the fiat of the Governor General. The Governor General, like King George, generally gives ear to the reigning Premier in such matters. And he in turn responds by custom to any very marked indications that the public is restive and anxious to elect a new Parliament which will mean more power or oblivion for the Premier...