Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva partisans of the League are growing extremely anxious lest His Majesty's Government have seriously in mind the project of virtually scrapping the League in the guise of "reforming" it, as favored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, reputed future Prime Minister. In League Secretariat circles everyone believes Mr. Chamberlain wants to have eliminated from the League Covenant its three most vital articles: Article X under which League States guarantee each other's territorial integrity and independence; Article XVI under which Sanctions are adopted against an aggressor; and Article XIX in which provision is made...
...down profession of aviation, Boeing Aircraft Co. has had a particularly up & down career. Created by accident after a crash, it has climbed to some of the greatest heights, endured some of the dizziest falls of any concern in the business. Last week, true to form, after a long anxious glide Boeing was once more roaring upward with new gallons in the gas tank and prosperity at the joystick...
Camp Kare-Free's guests are both funny and pathetic. Exhausted from a 50-week grind in city offices, they are pitiably anxious to have fun on their precious fortnight's vacation, to put their best foot forward with the other guests, perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears...
...public than most of the other artists under the protective wing of her dealer husband, but to Miss O'Keeffe's embarrassment, every time a showing of her paintings is held, it attracts half the amateur theosophists, swamis, faith healers and founders of new cults in Manhattan, anxious to read hidden meanings into her brilliantly colored, smoothly painted studies of skulls, feathers, roses, bones, morning glories and strange black crosses. In the new paintings exhibited last week, Artist O'Keeffe had given up crosses for turkey feathers, but the skill and the brilliant color are as obvious...
...Left to her own devices, she smoked (very fast for those days), rode horseback till patient Franzi grumbled: "If only you had never seen a saddle!", exercised and dieted herself into an alarming slimness. And one day she told Franz Joseph she simply had to go away. Hurt but anxious, he let her go. After that she hardly came home except for visits. On one of them she sat at old Sophie's deathbed. Her tormentor out of the way, Sisi never even attempted to take her place as the real Empress of Austria. By this time...