Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest brother, the Duke of Gloucester, accompanied by the Duchess, stopped off in Paris on the way home from an East African hunting trip to spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring the Duke of Windsor back into the royal family circle. The King's private plane flew the Gloucesters from Marseille to Paris and the British Embassy arranged the details of the meeting...
...this reason, more than because of the $200,000 a year it costs them, the chains were especially anxious to win. They imported lanky young Theodore W. Braun. whose Braun & Co. worked with Lord & Thomas in managing the California battle...
...slowly as the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Sometimes their upthrust is accelerated when a rich man dies, leaves a legacy. San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (Episcopal), building since 1910 on Nob Hill, has had a different course. For the past year its staff has watched, with anxious eyes, the state of health of a doddering, 85-year-old retired dentist named Dr. Nathaniel Coulson. To the Cathedral's building fund, pious Dr. Coulson has assigned the income of no less than 50 annuities, totaling between $1,000 and $2,000 a month. The annuities cease when...
...Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Czech Philharmonic, Georg Széll conducting; Victor: 10 sides). When Germany annexed the Sudeten area. Prague's Czech Philharmonic was disbanded, its members mobilized. But last week, anxious music-lovers learned that it had reassembled, would tour Great Britain. The least talked-about of the world's great orchestras, the demobilized Czechs had long been famous among record collectors for their matchless woodwinds and brasses. Of Czech Composer Dvořák's "New World" Symphony they give a matchless performance...
Peaceful, bomb-fearing Britons have for years been notably anxious to have Europe's air fleets limited by some kind of pact. Journalistic furor in London was therefore immense last week when unconfirmed rumors began buzzing that at Munich three weeks ago fat Field Marshal Hermann Göring genially told lean Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that an air pact not only is a good idea but ought to be signed on the basis that Germany can have three planes for every British...