Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile three conflicting stories had been given to the Press: 1) an automobile accident had detained Albert; 2) an automobile accident had killed him; 3) his body had been found floating in the Meuse River. Rattle-brained as all this was, it was natural enough behavior for frightened and anxious men in a crisis...
...from this vantage point that he was able to watch the sweep of events that led to the France-Prussian War. Alfred Krupp saw it coming, too. He like Schneider, was capable of an internationalism far above the confines of narrow patriotism and was anxious to equip Napoleon Ill's armies with his own cannon a suggestion not entirely without its legic or, even, its sportsmanship, for Krupp had borrowed in Paris (from the same banking house of Setlliere as had set Engene Schneider up in business) and the money with which he made the guns that late, humbled France...
This interest first caused complications when Mr. Ballantine was living in an apartment on Brattle Street. He was so anxious to have some sort of garden that he devised the scheme of placing plants on the fire escape to form a floral display. It was alright until the fire department demanded that they be immediately removed under the penalty of instant arrest...
When the Jackson conference opened last fortnight, many a delegate was anxious to elect Southern Methodist bishops henceforth for stated terms, instead of for life with retirement mandatory only on account of age (72) or infirmity. Also there are vacancies in the Methodist episcopacy: two because of death and three because of the pending retirement of three well-beloved prelates, Horace Mellard Du Bose, 75, of Nashville; Collins Denny, 79, of Richmond; and Warren A. Candler, 76, who, a member of Atlanta's Coca-Cola family, received newshawks one night last week in his oldtime white cotton nightgown. Would...
Painting. Of the 42 paintings which went to Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries, some arrived still wet from anxious last-minute daubs. Yale, as usual, scored again with a prize-winning oil by 21-year-old Gilbert Banever showing a white-suited Mexican with water...