Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen Chinese had been arrested for the murder of a French planter. Six were sentenced by a French court to Death. Anxious that the execution should be comme il faut, reflecting that the condemned men were Orientals, the French Court sent for an Oriental headsman, obtained after some difficulty a scowling Japanese adept with his great broad blade...
...account of the trying period through which the country at large is now passing. Since the Drama School is under no circumstances calculated to be self-supporting, the measure is in line with its established policy. Not wishing to lose any students because of financial difficulties, the School is anxious to impose no burden beyond that normally required for regular college expenses...
...believes, a compromise is impossible." Equally amazing was the cabal's declaration that if Secretary Hurley asked for a round table conference-which he did not-the independence bloc would not attend. Chief cause of this Hurley-burly was that the swart little legislators felt slighted, and perhaps anxious at the Secretary of War's going around asking the people what they thought of U. S. dominion instead of coming to the people's duly elected officers for his information. Meanwhile, the trim War Chief kept going, kept asking questions. At Zamboanga he was told that...
...standardization and mechanization, and the depressing mediocrity of the mob. The world, especially the modern world, is a little too much with him, and it is with the men of whom he writes. One suspects his writing, somehow, of a past full of many themes and reports, where an anxious solemnity has routed levity. Nevertheless, the critique is acute and readable. The stories in the issue show a lighter touch, if less care. Structurally, they are not stories at all, but rather anecdotes, character studies, Mr. Donaldson's "A Form of Shyness" is particularly well-done. He finds himself...
...Tarleton was born & raised in Manhattan but his family were impoverished Southern gentry. Kip watched his father drink up the profits of the family hotel, drink himself into his grave. Kip's mother made him swear never to touch a drop, and Kip was willing. Kip was always anxious to do the right thing. When he got a job as assistant superintendent of a big Long Island estate and found that his boss was taking a commission on purchases, he informed his employers, was snubbed for his pains. He met Maggie May (also Southern though not so impoverished...