Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris as a warning that men who had exposed their lives to defend their country were prepared to do so again in another field. . . . The Croix de Feu cannot help but admire the splendid spirit and proud bearing of every Italian and German as compared with the despondent, anxious and embittered attitude of their own countrymen. But they refuse to be identified with "fascism" in the generally accepted meaning of that word since they are opposed to many of the fascist principles, beginning with the totalitarian state. . . . L. DE VALLOMBROSA Paris, France...
...from Benito Mussolini that peace has to be got, Sir Samuel buttered the Dictator and Italy in a manner which struck anti-Fascist Labor M.P.'s as rancid. "We have no wish to humiliate Italy nor to weaken Italy," cried Britain's Secretary. "Indeed, we are most anxious to see a strong Italy in the world. ... I appeal once more to Signor Mussolini and his fellow countrymen. . . . Let them dismiss from their minds the suspicion that we wish to weaken Signor Mussolini's position and destroy the Fascist regime. . . . There is not a nation taking part...
Even for Paris excitement had mounted high on a Communist-Socialist tide of alarms that Fascist youngsters were going to attempt a coup d'état and hurl white-whiskered statesmen of the French Republic into the icy waters of the Seine (TIME, Dec. 9). Not at all anxious for such a ducking is bewhiskered old Radical Socialist Deputy Henri Guernut, considered a great specialist in French political dirt because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues...
...work of the Association is varied. The secretary carries on a large correspondence with Harvard Clubs from New York to Peiping, with individual members of the 66,000 alumni, and even with anxious parents who want to know how little Johnny is doing...
...Herr Doktor Obermagistratsrat needed only half an eye to see that a common anxiety gripped their respective bosoms, that a common passion stirred their hearts. What made each & every mayor anxious was the fact that his municipality was still dangerously long on joblessness requiring relief and uncomfortably short on cash to meet that requirement. What each & every mayor was in Washington for was to get money, more money and still more money out of the Federal Treasury for local relief. Hardly had bald, hawknosed T. Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, opened the first session than the keynote...