Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always reserved the sole right to spank its Latin-American neighbors. Since 1933 the U. S., anxious to avoid the stigma of dollar diplomacy, has spared the rod in the interests of President Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy. Meanwhile, the Mexican Government has seized without compensation oil lands, mines, ranches and farms belonging to citizens of the U. S. and foreign countries...
...Hitler and the Sudeten Germans. In case this reply is deemed in'olerable by Germany, as predicted by Nazi newsorgans, it becomes automatically a specific and possible cause of war. Therefore interest centred upon secret proposals made by the Führer last week and secretly discussed by anxious statesmen in Paris while crowds light-heartedly cheered Their Majesties. To find out what had happened, the U. S. Ambassador and the U. S. S. R. Ambassador each called at the French Foreign Office. They were told nothing with great politeness. Correspondents were informed at the British Foreign Office...
...less anxious for the treaty to come into force is Dictator Mussolini. With a considerably curtailed wheat crop, with Fascist finances in none-too-good shape, Italy is impatient for the day when she can receive a British loan. So in Rome last week British Ambassador Lord Perth and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, Dictator Mussolini's son-in-law, got together. Lord Perth suggested that the Italian Government use its "discreet influence" with Generalissimo Franco to stop the bombings. Realizing that continued attacks might cause his good English friend to lose his job, Italy's dictator decided...
...tennis addicts this was a women's Wimbledon. Every day capacity crowds filled the old green stands, anxious not to miss the dramatic defeat of Mrs. Moody, which they feared or hoped might happen any day. To British galleries the 31-year-old Californian had demonstrated that she was still good enough to win and also shaky enough to be beaten-which she twice was, in pre-Wimbledon warmup tournaments. Her opponent in the semi-finals was Hilda Sperling, the same Hilda Sperling who had trounced her two weeks before in the London championships. But when the semi-finals...
...London last week, Countess Barbara, the wife of Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and her two-year-old son, Lance, were entrenched in Winfield House surrounded by doctors, lawyers, bankers and armed guards. In Paris, Father Franklyn Laws Hutton, ever anxious about the happiness of his "dear little girl," talked things over with her second titled husband. It was after such a conference last week that Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, waylaid by reporters in the Ritz Hotel, hissed through his teeth: "I detest reporters...