Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett is a solemn, pious and abstemious citizen. But like New York's James John Walker he has friends always anxious to do him favors. Premier Bennett waits for no summons. Last week, anxious to throttle a "whispering campaign," he hurried before the Canadian Parliament's Committee on National Railways to explain about the rent he is paying for his suite in the Cháteau Laurier...
...often last week on grave matters of state. His principal conferees were Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board and President Dawes of Reconstruction Finance Corp. They came and went by White House side doors, kept their lips sealed on their deliberations. The anxious solemnity of their conferences with the President gave Washington a presentiment of momentous events just below the horizon...
Such a course will often not be voluntary for the student: an average Freshman, especially if he leans toward a technical field, is too anxious to finish studying, and start work. It is true that the Engineering School must always be an undergraduate school to conform to the terms of the McKay bequest. Since this is so, and the corridor must exist, let it be as narrow as possible, so that few, if any, can enter. Not many engineers would regret having spent two extra years in obtaining a broader education of this sort...
...Pinchot had campaigned in a bright blue Studebaker. Often she stepped out wearing mannish knickerbockers. Big posters bearing her sharp profile had blared: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Defeated, she observed: "People did not seem as anxious to send me to Congress as I was to go." Then she, too, journeyed to Washington, dined with many another Governor's wife at the White House...
...Last week's ceremony was the first of its kind since 1906 when Emperor Hirohito's grandfather honored the victims of the Russo-Japanese War. The Tokyo War Office is still anxious to keep the full casualty list of the Shanghai gesture from the public; only those who died before Feb. 10 were honored. Another ceremony for several hundred more must soon take place...