Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out, housing conditions in this country have sunken to such a level that they constitute a national problem, a problem with which the present generation must come to grips. Earvard, by its action, has shown that it is still in close touch with actualities and is as anxious as the Democratic Party to relieve "one-third of the nation...
Hollywood's champion long-distance emotional gamut-runner, Luise Rainer has a real field day in Dramatic School. Her rich part requires her to twitch out the interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara...
When he vanished eight days ago, Myerson had sold many personal possessions, including a trumpet, to raise money for his disappearing act, no motive for which has been suggested other than unhappiness in college. Throughout an anxious week his parents steadily maintained that they were in complete sympathy with whatever plans he had formulated "to make his own way in the world...
...suggest that a series of evening lectures be given by a capable man who is anxious to do the work. In these lectures he will discuss the effects of sleep or exercise on study methods of learning words for a language, effects of room ventilation on efficiency, and effects of street noise and music on concentration. He will discuss the relative merits of learning different subjects by sight, sound, or touch. He will tell you what he can about the psychology of learning. Yours truly, F. B. Riggs...
This really finished the case. But the most interesting irrelevancy of the trial was the following story about the origin of the Lucky Strike slogan: "My father [Percival S. Hill, whom George succeeded in 1925] was anxious to put out the brand of Lucky Strike cigarets, and I was not willing to put it out because I was sales manager and responsible to him for the success or failure of it, and I didn't have a reason for it. I went over to the factory one day . . . and when I got within three blocks of the factory...