Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who feel anxious over the election of Field Marshall Von Hindenburg should remember that it takes many many votes to make a president and a great many popular reasons. The idea seems to have become editorially rampant that Germany elected Von Hindenburg to bring back an era of militarism, to threaten world peace once more, and carry out the policy that was so disasterously interrupted seven years ago. Germany is still incapable of vigorous international action, and communism rather than militarism, has lately been Germany's chief danger...
...president of the Lampoon at the time was a friend of a movie actress, and the trouble arose from that acquaintanceship. The actress was as anxious for publicity as was the president...
Surely America is as anxious to abolish war as any nation. Obviously it desires to make the future safe for its inheritors. And yet, in this land of few grievances, and little oppression, past injuries are not forgotten, and the voice of the self-named patriot still carries forward the hatred and jealousies of a warring...
Last week, Heracles railway train transported Prometheus Karolyi and his wife across the Canadian frontier, bursting their gyves asunder. The things that the Count wished to say, that the U. S. Department of State forbade him to say and that everybody was anxious he should be allowed to say were said...
...Brooks House. The students have only so much enthusiasm. They enter the work with all too little guidance and are more often misplaced at first than well placed. Once they are in, they are too little supervised. They find themselves engaged in that which interests them not at all, anxious to do half a dozen other helpful things in which they are really interested...