Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stops today, namely, at Italy's frontiers. With characteristic prudence, II Duce did not permit his Fascist Party to be represented in Montreux, Switzerland last week at the first World Conference of Pax Romanizers. President of the Action Committee is hopeful Fascist Eugenio Coselschi, devoutly anxious to be considered Dictator Benito Mussolini's intimate friend. To mild Montreux ("warmest winter resort in Switzerland") went as his guests the leaders of vaguely Fascist groups in France, the Netherlands, the Irish Free State, Rumania, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. No delegate showed up to represent Adolf Hitler. Moreover...
...whip an unwieldy Democratic majority into obedience. "Joe" Byrns, who was raised on a Tennessee farm and has spent 26 years as a Democratic wheelhorse in the House, did not fill those specifications. Texas' Representative Sam Rayburn became, in effect, the New Deal's candidate. Louis Howe was anxious to see him get the job and Vice President Garner sent a letter to the Texas delegation in the House urging them to vote for their colleague and his political protege. In addition two other serious contenders for the Speakership were still in the running: loud, rambunctious John Elliott Rankin...
...scattered through the files of the agencies which had issued them. Some had gone out as press releases, as mimeographed sheets or pamphlets to those who had put themselves on the agencies' mailing lists. Others were simply tucked away in the files. Nowhere in the land could a businessman anxious to obey the law find in one place all the laws he was supposed to obey...
...needless inferiority complex about its domestic wine, but will have to clean house in the matter of dishonest labeling. They give a chapter apiece to the wines of France, Germany. Italy, Spain and Portugal; tell how to buy wine-what to ask the dealer, what prices are right. Anxious hostesses may consult a table showing what wine to serve with what dish. (Beer-swillers, whiskey-totters will find nothing for them in The Complete Wine Book; but Authors Schoonmaker & Marvel append a final chapter on brandies, liqueurs, vermouth...
...Bunny is a sweet, normal child and we are desperately anxious to keep him that way," said his mother last week. Like her husband, who teaches mathematics in a Brooklyn high school, Mrs. Greenwood is Jewish, well-educated. No prodigy is Bunny's brother David...