Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greek citizens who did not invest in Insull securities in the past may have a chance to do so in the future. United Pressman Anthony Kedras reported from Athens last week that Mr. Insull was ready to confer with a group of fascinated Greek bankers anxious to exploit Greek railroads, draining projects, electric concerns in the Insull manner...
...Marta, Pauline and Russ move about on their gentle junkets they reminisce constantly, sometimes aloud but more often, more fully, to themselves. Gradually tortuously, the anxious reader discovers their histories. All have come from poor beginnings to comparative success. All of them have been unhappily married. All of them are enough wiser than they were to be able to philosophize about it. And at the end Marta goes back to her comic strip, Russ to his job and the doctor's sentence hanging over him, Pauline to the thought of her dead children and the possibility of once again...
...Street, repudiated in the election, was trying to get an advance grip, through President Hoover, on the next administration's foreign policy. Why, asked Democrats, among themselves, did not President Hoover offer to turn power as well as responsibility over to the President-elect if he was so anxious for cooperation...
...pawing at a group of pretty female companions. When Rasputin finds out at whose house he has been holding his lecherous revels, he takes Chegodieff downstairs and begins to shoot at him with a revolver. He has just fired the first shot when the poison begins to act. Chegodieff, anxious to hurry matters along, tries to push Rasputin into the fire. When this fails, he wrestles with him, whacks him across the nose with a poker. Rasputin writhes on the floor. Chegodieff then seizes an immense fire iron resembling a crowbar and mashes Rasputin as though he were a potato...
...report on inter-House athletics. In general the conduct of inter-House athletics during the past year has followed the procedure recommended in that report. Even as the Houses were to be permitted to develop other extra-curricula activities in their own way, we in the Athletic Department were anxious to see as much autonomy as possible in the evolution of an inter-House athletic program. The changes in and the additions to the program, made necessary by experience, were affected not by the Harvard Athletic Association, but by the Inter-House Athletic Committee...