Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilson home, but declined it for fear the children might be disturbing to the ex-President, who is far from well. After stopping at a hotel, however, a visit to S Street was at once undertaken so that the two little girls could " see Granddaddy " who was equally anxious to see them...
Seven years ago when the dignified senior was timidly entering high school or plunging out into the cold world of boarding school, Harvard defeated Princeton at football. Seven years without a victory is a long time, and so it is only natural that the Harvard man is anxious above all for success this year in the Palmer Stadium. The biennial invasion of New Jersey is about to start--to be carried out, so reports are both by land and by sea. And the Crimson will not lack supporters when it faces the Orange and Black, for undergraduates, at least, would...
...That (this in following charges by Elias H. Mortimer of Philadelphia) he got a "loan" of $5,000 from Mortimer, without security; Mortimer was acting as agent for several construction companies who were anxious for contracts on veterans' hospitals...
...expression and the latter especially he sang with a fire and understanding truly excellent. It is to be regretted that the orchestra in accompanying him in this last played the Fire Music so poorly. It hurried through the music, cutting off the arpeggios as if it were too anxious to come to the end of a concert already protracted which had undoubtedly been a great strain on the players...
...they are benefiting England, not France. Our Allies are helping reestablish ourselves, but only by consulting without producing the promised money, so France could hardly be expected to do anything else, other than break away and act by itself. This does not mean that France is reactionary, and is anxious to acquire the Rhineland; it means only that she is intent upon seeing the treaties fulfilled and then will withdraw satisfied...