Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lilies of France (see cut). In Paris last week he was visited by a most anxious and disgruntled young nephew who suddenly arrived from Belgium-"His Majesty, Otto, Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary," as this handsome and 100% legitimate pretender to the Dual Crown is styled by devoted Austrian and Hungarian monarchists...
...Still anxious to please Mrs. Taft, Architect Gilbert designed a courtroom that to the casual visitor is one of the most impressive chambers in the U. S. A row of Ionic columns surrounds it. Bronze and steel grilles shut off the wing corridors. A handsome sculptured frieze surrounds the walls. The bench itself is a chaste and dignified bar of polished mahogany...
...last April an Associated Press photographer snapped the President at a baseball game yelling and popping peanuts into his mouth. Worse was a photograph he took in which a trick of light had made the President look ghastly pale. Its publication brought the White House a storm of anxious letters inquiring about the President's health. Distraught, Secretary Early declared a ban on all candid cameras around the White House...
...major factor in their prompt decision to call the Strike off. Last week Sir John Simon betook himself to a microphone connected with a Continental hook-up and made a speech in French. "In years gone by the Kings of England exercised great personal power," Sir John told anxious Frenchmen. "One of our writers has aptly remarked that the King of England in his relations with his Ministers has kept three 'rights'-the right to be informed, the right to advise and the right to warn. . . . Nowadays the King always acts on the advice of his Ministers...
...laughter by reading two cablegrams sent to. him in Moscow by the former Soviet Minister to Uruguay who sat beside M. Litvinoff last week. Russia, said her Foreign Minister, had refused, just before the cablegrams were sent, to admit to Russia an anarchist named Simon Radovitsky whom Uruguay was anxious to deport...