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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently assuming that summertime audiences are not anxious to strain their overheated energies in witnessing heavy, provocative drama, the local summer theatre group has been serving up a light diet of mysteries and comedies, spiced by the presence of some well-known personalities in its recent bill-of-fare. Its latest offering, fully in keeping with that policy, is Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," the semi-psychological thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short...

Author: By I. M. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

Naomi-Margret Sevetson was not original in her ideas when she told you that "men are beasts" [TIME, June 24]. What would be original would be an explanation as to why women are willing-sometimes anxious-to attach themselves to such beasts. The obvious reply from many female breasts, would be: "Because women are such fools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

There were 118 newsmen aboard the press ship Appalachian at Bikini, and the competition was keen. Some of the boys, anxious to get their stories moving ahead of their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Report from Bikini | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

What was a plain citizen to think? He was worried and anxious. What was going to happen to him now? Was he suddenly going to have to pay twice as much for everything? Should he strike for higher pay? If everybody else put prices up he'd have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Steady | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...this time, the boy was anxious to be off on an inspection tour of the Yard. He figured the "Athropopological Museum" as the best entertainment bet. As he disappeared in that direction, he was heard to say, "I still don't see what is so hot about this place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixth Grader Flies from Texas to Speak to Committee on Admission | 7/5/1946 | See Source »

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