Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collision. She'd been up early in the morning to see the scenery, hoping to have a good sleep that night, and that's the kind of a bally night she had. There wasn't really an awful lot to the collision, though. We are most anxious to get home to see our kiddies. We have eleven, you know...
...Goodrich, sometime physician, had been dead 18 years, no one at B. F. Goodrich Co. realized that a chunky, broad-shouldered young man who reported for work at the Akron factory one day in 1906 was the founder's nephew. James Dinsmore Tew, just out of Harvard and anxious to prove his worth, did not take the trouble to remind his employers that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been called Goodrich, Tew & Co. At the end of two years, when young Tew was making $75 a month, he asked for a raise. "I'm sorry...
Events in Ethiopia last week were featured by the hasty departure from Addis Ababa of six U. S. Negroes not in the least anxious to fight or nurse for either cross...
...view more indisputable Rembrandt pictures than have ever been seen before in one place. Included were the Rijksmuseum's own nine Rembrandts and 36 more borrowed from abroad for the summer. Among the U. S. importations were Andrew Mellon's Self Portrait, a sharp-chinned, bloated, anxious man of 53 with a Vandyke beard (see cut); Julius Haass's Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's amiable young mistress; the Knoedler Galleries' 'Joseph Accused By Potiphar's Wife. Among the Rijksmuseum's own canvases were Rembrandt's three most famed paintings, The March...
McIntyre: ... No opiate is so deadening as memory . . ; the despair of anxious thought...