Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bermuda samples of Australian wines were stacked ready to be rushed to Manhattan. There are no Australian vintage years because, Australians eagerly explain, "the weather is so perfect that every year is the same." Anxious not to offend the King's subjects down under, the Encyclopædia Britannica puts Australian wines in their place with a maximum of tact: "The plentiful supply of cheap grape brandy makes it possible for Australia to send to England ever increasingly large quantities of fortified wines [i. e. dosed with brandy], wines which being rich in natural grape sweetness...
...spring, when Dictator Calles indicated that he would pick Cardenas (TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal henchman of Boss Calles, he left the Convention as soon as he was nominated, retired to disport himself harmlessly in Aguascalientes, famous for its thermal baths...
...Please," pleaded an anxious, intelligent-looking man who entered Pasadena. Calif.'s city jail last week, "let me stay here until my memory returns." The officers in charge, accustomed to mental derelicts, concluded that here was an authentic case of amnesia, gave the man harbor. For several minutes his hand hovered over the jail register. Eventually he signed: "Poor Devil...
...product of the industrial revolution, the soapbox, has left its mark on all consciously "proletarian" writing. Curbstone oratory, more effective in the open air than in the echoing covers of a book, is drawing bigger crowds than once it did, and publishers, their anxious fingers on the public pulse, are beginning to prescribe this form of mild dynamite. Though alert Publisher Farrar finds Upsurge "impossible to describe," he admits that this manifesto-poem is "frankly a message...
When the controversy was carried to the White House, the President had precisely the same kind of problem as he had when Professor Moley and Secretary Hull clashed. In this instance he was as anxious as in the first case to preserve the member of the "Brain Trust" in question. Mr. Moley finally was transferred to another department and then resigned. Mr. Tugwell has been mentioned as possibly being useful in another part of the government, but there is no need of change now that the codes which he and Mr. Peek quarreled about have been transferred to Mr. Johnson...