Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finer things from the generous New Deal. Unexpressed, but probably more potent, was the fact that Cotton Senators knew that cotton mills and speculators in the South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later, anxious to send Congress packing. President Roosevelt offered to lend 10? instead of 9?, and Congress adjourned in a flare of fireworks staged by Senator Huey Long, unassisted...
...Davis Cup, the trophy which Mrs. George W. Wightman put up for women's international play in 1923 has been won by the U. S. regularly since 1931 in team matches against England. Last week, at Forest Hills, however, the U. S. Wightman Cup team had a few anxious moments. With Helen Wills Moody through with tennis for the season, England's pretty 21-year-old Katherine Stammers wore out husky Helen Jacobs, 5-7, 6-1. 9-7. Then demure little Dorothy Round mopped up the court with tiny Ethel Burkhardt Arnold who has been the sensation...
Parents of Boy Scouts began to feel anxious. Dr. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, tried to reassure them: "No special cause for apprehension...
...talk with other patients, and where he slept in "a wide-open show window, an illuminated dog kennel." The medical attention was so close that, as he objected profanely, "people come walking in and out and prodding me with sticks every minute of the day and night." Irritable, anxious to sleep, half stupefied with drink, he objected to being weighed and given a shower, objected more vehemently to being made...
...invited guests to meet the Grand Duke at a dinner and ball, but refused to include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry Lehr masqueraded as the Tsar of Russia, made a joke of the conflict, amused the absent Grand Duke...