Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare...
With a great desire concealed beneath a formal note, the ladies step forward anxious to debate Harvard. Wellesley challenges the University to a debate and sets a date, December 1. Vassar also is anxious to repeat last year's program and debate the Freshmen. Freshmen, however, are scorned by Wellesley, which demands a debate with a team from the college at large. It remains for the Debating Council to decide whether or not these invitations will be accepted. The fate of both debates will be settled at a meeting of the Council on Monday night...
...distinct Harvard organization, is of importance only in determining the exact relation between the Klan and the Harvard Klansmen. What these relations have been in the past is now clear; what they will be in the future will, apparently, depend largely on whether those Harvard Klansmen who are anxious to form a separate unit can succeed without violating the University regulations...
...Coblenz and Dortmund there is a struggle in progress the result of which is nearly as important for the future of France and Germany as were the battles of the Marne and Verdun. The balance of power has shifted since 1914 from Germany to France and England, forever anxious to keep the scales even, is moving further and further from France. But the future of Germany is not being determined by Downing Street or by the Quai d'Orsay, or even by the Wilhelmstrasse, which seems largely powerless in the force of events; it is being determined by Munich...
...known alarm clock could have raised such a crowd of students so instantaneously, for in less than two minutes after the crash the scene of the accident was surrounded by a truly motley crowd anxious to assist the victims. Fortunately the toll was slight, the driver of the Chevrolet being the only person to appear even shaken up, while to the spectators' utter astonishment, five men sound in body and mind crawled one after another from the tonneau of the Ford...