Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, the proceedings resemble a barbecue. The whole world is invited, as many reputations as possible are spitted and turned slowly over a sizzling fire, the fumes purposely wafted this way and that. None of this was characteristic of a graft hunt which last week had Washington on the anxious bench. In spite of complete secrecy, scandal of the first order was brewing in the War Department. One after another War Department officials were going before a grand jury with testimony about automobiles and underwear...
...Intercollegiate league ever since it won the opening game against Harvard by an overwhelming 54-20 score. The Crimson will guard closely Al Bonniwell, fiery Indian forward, who has netted 94 points for the Indians in eight league games. Dartmouth, with but one more game on its schedule, is anxious to write a brilliant finis on a successful season...
Mayor LaGuardia was anxious to do over New York City at once. But doing over implied doing New York City's established political machines out of many jobs, and out of much power. Tammany naturally opposed it, and Tammany-elected State Legislators stood against it, but they were not chiefly responsible for the LaGuardia-Lehman bill's defeat...
...France and Britain. Repeal in the U. S. was largely to blame. Fighting for a larger share of the newly-established liquor trade, France agreed to accept greatly increased quotas of U. S. apples and pears in return for more wine shipped to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 1). Anxious as France is to help her vintners, she is still more firmly bound to the quota system and economic self-sufficiency. Hence some other import quotas had to be decreased, and it was the British that suffered. British shipments were reduced ?3,000,000 in value and the license...
...cigarets. "My chief purpose in coming he " he announced, "is to drink whiskey with good Americans." So saying, he led the way to the ship's bar. As to the "crisis ahead," Ambassador Saito blandly informed his interviewers : "What has happened can easily be smoothed out. Russia is anxious to dispose of her interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. It is simply a matter of price. . . . Most certainly we cannot go to war because of a railway. It is incredible! War with Russia would mean war with other countries and with the United States. We do not want...