Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeating Arms Co., whose stock (largely held by New Haven's Bennett family) was quoted at $3,000 a share during the War, passed into the control of a Federal receiver. Thus it was that last week Powderman Olin did not go to New Haven as a western manufacturer anxious to learn from Winchester, but as a munitions tycoon in his own right ready to buy and absorb a fallen rival...
...rode grinning in the middle (see cut). The third backseat rider, Chairman Albert Henry Wiggin of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, has nobody knows how many foreign commitments. Appropriately Mayor Jimmy made Banker Al the City's official greeter. Striking the note of a hen on anxious eggs at the City Hall, Mr. Wiggin greeted...
Feverish bustle, anxious conjecture filled Buckingham Palace on election day this week. Outside, London wallowed in a yellow pea-soup fog. Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed...
...evacuated the city when banks again became a thing to talk about there. Overnight came the startling news that 14 of the city's banks were consolidating into four major groups, that one of the two remaining banks would be included later. Invited to take part but anxious to remain independent was Boardwalk National ($2,850,000 in assets), only institution situated on the famed promenade...
...could travel. But from the day his God's Own Country (Main Street) became a best seller dated all of Susan's troubles. Success inevitably went to his head and he further bamboozled himself by drinking. Susan was always technically faithful but Tim gave her many a cause for anxious jealousy. Once she gave a wedding anniversary party in London; Tim got drunk and disgraced her. Once he brought a psychoanalyst into her room while she was dressing, wanted the three of them to have a conference on their marital troubles. When she could stand it no longer Susan went...