Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...core is 19-year-old Mrs. Kenneth Pawley of Newchang on the Japanese South Manchuria Railway. Several weeks ago Chinese bandits kidnapped Mrs. Pawley (a bride of three months), her two dogs (an Irish setter and an Alsatian) and one Mr. Corkran who calls Mrs. Pawley "Tinko." Last week anxious friends received a grimy ransom note, demanding $100,000 mex. (about $30,000), failing which Mrs. Pawley's and Mr. Corkran's ears would be cut off. Appended was a postscript from Mrs. Pawley...
...with little wall space, rental fees to be applied on the purchase of any picture the subscriber particularly admired. The idea fell through because shipping and insurance costs wiped out the dealers' profit, damage in transshipment estranged artists. Several modern galleries are willing to rent pictures to people anxious to beautify hotel suites for a few months, or to persons of fickle taste like Mr. Woollcott...
...latter claim, and the demand for return to government by party responsibility that justly deserve closest attention. Last fall an anxious nation placed the present ministry in power for the sole purpose of presenting a strong, non-partisan front to the imminent national financial difficulties attendant on a world-wide depression. It can no longer be reasonably maintained that that crisis is not past. But the Prime Minister justifies his continuation in office by indicating the need for a similar unified government in face of the pressing international problems of reparations, disarmament, and currency...
While the Coolidge article was political gospel for all G. O. Partisans, it prompted such an irreverent individual as Funny man Will Rogers to remark: "Calvin Coolidge has had everybody on the anxious seat for months as to who he would sup port in the November handicap. Campaign managers and politicians have been dogging his rubber-booted steps. But it took, not a politician, but a commercial-minded gentleman (proprietor of America's biggest nickelodeon), Mr. George Horace Lorimer, not with words or editorial persuasion but with his signature on a small piece of paper, payable...
Amid pandemonium the Deputies voted "adjourment until tomorrow," thus constituting themselves a Rump Reichstag. Rumors flew that 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg would declare martial law, call out the Army and disperse the Reichstag with bayonets should it dare to meet. Not anxious to be pinched or prodded, Fascist Göring said that, after all, perhaps there might be no rump session...