Word: anxious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brilliant parties at a little bistro in the Rue Pierre Charron. But when detectives, spurred on by the travel agency, in Birmingham, arrived to check up on "the gay Englishman." he had disappeared. The travel agency did not say why they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...
...crew. The bulkheads dripped with green mold. Short of soap and wearing wet clothes washed in salt water, the men broke out in rashes and boils. With half of its fuel gone and only one-third of the trip completed, U-977 finally surfaced. Thereafter, except for a few anxious moments, the South Atlantic crossing was pretty much a pleasure jaunt, with the men spearing fish or taking surfboard exercise behind...
...Dean of Education saw the greatest effect of educational television on secondary education and on men already graduated from colleges. I would here that if would have a substantial wide influence." So emphasis. "There is just no other was to reach that need and is anxious to watch educational problems...
...world knows and honors Henri Matisse for his color-drenched canvases. But, at 83, France's ailing master is anxious to be known for his work in another medium before he dies: his sculpture. There isn't much of it, and only rarely has it been shown. Last week London's Tate Gallery gladly obliged the old man with the largest exhibit of Matisse sculpture ever shown, 49 pieces, almost all of his output in clay and bronze...
...searching for a substitute to take Kaufman's place, was turned down by Newsman John Daly ("I think Kaufman's dismissal was both unnecessary and absurd"), Comic Garry Moore ("Responsible people shouldn't give way to the small segment of the public who are all too anxious to hunt for things to condemn"), and Veteran Fred Allen, who snapped: "This thing is ridiculous. There are only two good wits on television, Groucho Marx and George S. Kaufman. With Kaufman gone, TV is half-witted." Finally, CBS found a substitute in Steve (Songs for Sale) Allen...