Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waller, who can swing with the best of them when he wants to, arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood, gave a "recital" of jazz music 'at a midtown hotel under the auspices of Twentieth Century-Fox, for whom he had just helped make King of Burlesque, and who were anxious to cash in on the notoriety attending the burgeoning jazz movement...
After plumbing the mysterious depths of the Hoare Crisis further, the anti-Deal and pro-League New York Times anxiously headlined: "BALDWIN ANXIOUS TO QUIT AS PREMIER. Official Burdens Rest Heavily on Him, but He Is Not Likely to Act Precipitately. Hoare Aspires to Post His Stock Rising Since Speech of Defense...
...Athlete Ives, anxious to get into West Point, went to the War Department in Washington and asked how. He was given a list of 75 Congressmen with appointments to make. All but three or four gave him no hope. One who did was Representative Hoeppel. Unexpectedly there arrived at the Ives home in Baltimore a young man who said his name was Charles Alexander and who promised to deliver the appointment for $1,000. Applicant Ives gave him a promissory note for the sum. Few days later Ives learned that a bought appointment was illegal, went to Washington, demanded...
Still more enlightening were the visits, made individually or in smaller groups, into the homes of several of the hosts and the chats with young French people upon common problems. At tea and at dinner the American representatives found their new friends as anxious as themselves for concord and amicable relations...
...exuberant but anxious student called us up Saturday morning--exuberant over his previous night's conquest of Weeks Bridge with bottle and automobile but anxious to know if he were the first to accomplish this feat...