Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have a good term, and will be delighted to see him at their establishment as soon as he can call (lounge suits from eight guineas). Miss Monica Hipline wants to teach him to dance, Mr. Andrew McLewis wants to lend him money, all sorts of unknown friends are anxious of help him. "It's not your money we want," they say, "indeed, we will not mention the cost of these trifles; it's your help, your welfare, your friendship, your success, your health that we are after...
Plenty of other candidates for popular martyrdom popped up to bid for Gentleman Farmer Chandler's potatoes. Declared Manhattan Jeweler Norman C. Norman, a plaintiff in the Supreme Court gold-clause cases: "I am particularly anxious to serve time in the penitentiary...
...consistent Pacifism must always and ultimately be the guiding principle of British Labor, Lord Ponsonby, the Labor Party's leader in the House of Lords, resigned last week. Its leader in the Commons, "Old George" Lansbury, again threatened to resign. The Young Labor rival Herbert Morrison, who is most anxious to succeed him, announced that he smelt a Geneva...
...have "ruthlessly curtailed" space and weight until no gentleman would care to fight in them. Oddly enough Dr. Parkes seemed more alarmed by the Fascist "suicide boats" (super-speedboats carrying torpedoes) than by any of Italy's other weapons. "Should the Mediterranean become a scene of naval operations." wrote anxious Oscar Parkes, "I should hazard the guess that these boats and torpedo planes will play a more vital part than the big ships...
Elated, Miss Ingalls hustled off to bed, while Mrs. Putnam's technical adviser explained: "Miss Earhart's mark had remained so long she was anxious to have it supplanted by a much better record...