Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extremely anxious that India should be kept out of the political arena." began Mr. Baldwin and bumbled on in well-bred fashion for half an hour, after which the Conference sang "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow...
...involved those traditional enemies the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News, thus: Last year Clifford Henderson, longtime air-race promoter, went on the road to place the 1933 meet. Cleveland, which had a five-year option on the races and which took a loss last year, was anxious to sublet this year's meet to another city. Privately the Cleveland committee wanted Promoter Henderson to take the show to the Pacific Coast for two reasons: 1) California wanted it. 2) The farther from Cleveland in 1933, the stronger the comeback...
...great events that expand the scope of history," said the Chancellor's organ, "take place upon the sea. It is the sea that creates world powers." Praising present-day German pocket battleships as superior to foreign fighting craft. Herr Hitler's paper cried: "We need not be anxious! . . . Today, modern naval tactics enable Germans, with their superior capacity for leadership, to escape the monotony of bombardment of the enemy fleet and to succeed with smaller means at their disposal than those which the enemy possesses...
When Duveen first denounced the Hahn Belle, Mme Harm's husband was a Kansas City auto salesman anxious to help but untutored in the art of expertizing paintings. Last week, while Lord Duveen in his scarlet cloak and cocked hat entered the House of Lords to bow three times before the Lord Chancellor and take his seat as a peer of the realm, Harry J. Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present...
...Anxious Vanderbilt...