Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are still several vacancies to be filled on the nine and the management is anxious to secure the best talent possible. It was announced yesterday that candidates might report this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers' Field. Whether practice would be secret, or whether admission would be charged, were facts about which the scholars seemed to prefer not to make any statement...
...respective management had great difficulty over one point. Yale men were anxious for a quarter mile race but the Crimson boosters held their own and the race will therefore be rowed over the half-mile distance again...
...While we are very anxious to have as many Harvard men in the Business School as possible, we have sent out notices on several different occasions that applications should be handed in early because it will be impossible for us to deviate from the rule that preference for admission will be based on priority of application, provided the scholastic requirements for admission...
...Prince. Tammany chose James A. Foley. Foley was a son-in-law of Murphy- had married the Tammany boss's adopted daughter. He had been in both Houses of the State Legislature of New York. He had a good job on the bench as Surrogate. He was not anxious to succeed his father-in-law. Mr. Foley was not anxious to be boss of Tammany, but his wife, who had been the daughter of a Tammany boss, was determined not to be wife of a Tammany boss. She protested vigorously. Tammany also protested-that it needed Foley. Foley yielded...
...ahead in any other way, pretends to be a well- known modiste, and while success rolls in on one side, the police roll in on the other-for her assumed namesake has been involved in Red Cross frauds. The girl's prosecution is pushed by a political boss anxious to hush her up in her fight to make him pay for crippling her brother. But a young attorney saves her by a stall. Artificial but well-wrought complications carry the story along. Agnes Ayres looks pretty but placid as the girl, and Antonio Moreno seems a bit too romantic...