Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most anxious for the "pink slip" law's repeal last week was one whom, as a taxpayer, it could not embarrass. Anyone may turn to a World Almanac, learn that the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue gets $10,000 a year. But Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering knows that the job of compiling the pink slips would put a tremendous extra burden on his Bureau, cost the Government some...
...being a game, must go on according to the rules. To their Embassy in Berlin the imperturbable British sent instructions to ask the German Government whether Adolf Hitler's invitation to Sir John Simon still stood; whether, assuming that it stood, the German Government remained anxious to obtain by bargain what they had purported to seize; whether, in effect, the Nazis are mad dogs or gentlemanly players of a gentleman's game...
...criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against the enemy, is not leaning over backwards, for all the modernist idols--except the obvious frauds--possess a perfection of their own, which the best modernist critics, at any rate, are gravely anxious to explain and to applaud. So one must really be cautious in his demolition; Picasso, for example, would not be Picasso if he were not privy to certain secrets unknown by Giotto. The attention paid to him is only superficially due to a "justifiable reaction from the ideas...
Eager as he was to be in Paris, Arnold Bernstein was not half so anxious as the Conference was to have him there. Meeting behind closed doors in their swank offices, the grave-faced members had good cause for anxiety. In three short years this handsome, affable German Jew had grown from a minor competitor to a major menace. As the principal owner of Arnold Bernstein Line, biggest of the transatlantic independents, he had more than held his own against an international shipping combine by the simple method of selling transportation cheaper than anyone else. Hugely successful...
...supreme effort will be made this year to lift the Agassiz Cup for the first time in the House's history, because it has been learned that Professor Merriman is especially anxious to have his boys develop into a winning crew...