Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advertising pays just as liberally in Wall Street as elsewhere. Gilded on its windows or carved on its lintels, appear the names of countless bankers and brokers, all just as anxious to impress the passer-by with their particular names as firms are anywhere else. Even the Stock Exchange and the Chamber of Commerce feel it necessary to label themselves quite plainly for the benefit of the man in the street...
...years Harry Greb (of Pittsburgh) has been swinging wildly with his long arms, butting desperately with his head, and roughing it generally in quest of a world's title. Ever since Johnny Wilson, a second rate fighter, won the middleweight championship in 1920 Greb has been anxious to take the title from him. He succeeded in a 15-round fight at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan. Swarming all over the defender and slashing his face into ribbons of red flesh, he took 13 of the 15 rounds and was awarded the title by decision...
...politicians see the other side of the shield. Within not much over a year many of them must stand for reelection. Their constituents are anxious to see the other fellow, the fellow with more money, taxed. If the surtaxes of the rich man are lightened, the average constituent feels that he (the poor man) will suffer, regardless of the fact that the Government may get more money. The La Follette insurgent group are potent fosterers of this impression. They maintain that to burden the rich is to unburden the poor. The argument has a popular vote-getting appeal. They...
...Central Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, not to mention sundry other places, is coming soon. His visit will be nonpolitical. Sir Alfred Cope, Under Secretary for Ireland (1920-22), in the U. S. to arrange for Mr. Lloyd George's visit, said that Mr. Lloyd George had long been anxious to visit the U. S. and that " he wants to see you Americans who are teaching the world how to do things...
...adherents who have been with him from the start. . . It is time there was peace there, for the devastation and revolution cost Ireland about 40,000,000 pounds sterling." It became known, paradoxically enough, that the whereabouts of Eamon de Valera were unknown. The discovery was made by the anxious Mrs. Eamon de Valera, who went to visit her husband at Mount Joy prison, Dublin. Her husband's presence there was denied. Later she sent a wire to the Adjutant General : " Please inform me of the whereabouts of my husband." She received no reply. The first anniversary...