Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advantage. Day before President Roosevelt returned to Washington from Hyde Park, Prime Minister King arrived to look over the ground. At the station he was greeted by Undersecretary of State Phillips and the President's Naval Aide. Also on hand was the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, anxious to watch the Canadian who London feared might throw over the Empire as a trade ally in favor of the U. S. Off in a White House limousine drove Mr. King to the Canadian Legation, recently vacated by Canadian Minister William Duncan Herridge, brother-in-law of outgoing Prime Minister Bennett...
...other words, the world of business, anxious to throw off the annoyingly interfering administration, has been flooding the country with propaganda. It is clever propaganda, even if its highly paid perpetrators are sometimes unable to strike the clear note of sincerity . . . . . --Yale News, November...
...Experts in domestic politics have for some time been anxious to have the [election] safely over before public opinion understands the extent of the failure of the policy pursued at Geneva. . . . The spectacular activities of Anthony Eden, Minister for League Affairs, may impress public opinion for a time, yet the Government know that the impression is unstable unless it is borne out by facts, which are not forthcoming. Therefore haste is imperative before the partial failure of the plan for collective security through Geneva stands revealed...
This Londoner concludes after much anxious research that "Fascism is Mussolini." In something between relief and desperation at his inability to formulate the essence of Fascism which so many Italians feel they have grasped by instinct, Scholar Finer adds: "The Fascist system depends on a genius, and with his passage it must pass...
...Jekyll and Hyde are again in the "Spot"--this time because of Mr. James Carmody. For according to reports, the public is anxious to renew acquaintance with the two-faced individuals at the Winthrop House dinner dance Saturday night. Although Mr. Carmody has since decided to remain on Puritan ground, there was a time when he intended to appear at Dunster that same evening...