Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite all this helpful advice, the magazine ends its pages with a doleful note to its anxious readers: "Until further notice, 'College' will not be sod on the newsstands...
Last week, prompted by Hearstlings, prominent citizens gave out statements for symposiums swatting the barflies. Pastors preached in favor of the campaign, and judges anxious to get their pictures in the paper took it for a text in lecturing defendants. As a moral crusade, it was taking its place alongside such other newsless Hearst favorites as antivivisection, anti-cockfighting and the whipping post for wife-beaters. Before it was over, it might even take on some of the trappings of the political campaigns: front-page stories from Washington, front-page editorials, Hearst-written resolutions for passage by American Legion posts...
...favorably. As "joint editor" with Mrs. Evelyn Anderson, a veteran Tribune wheelhorse, Foot hopes to spice up the critical columns, open up the pages to more young hopefuls. He also wants to build up Tribune's lively, intelligent, often acidulous handling of U.S. affairs. And he is anxious to lift what he calls the iron curtain between the U.S. and British labor movements...
...Food is often used to relieve anxiety, reported Dr. Charlotte G. Babcock, lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Example: a mother, because she identifies herself with her child, is anxious until he is satisfied and feels more comfortable after giving a crying baby a bottle. On the other hand, some people may refuse food because a feeling of guilt follows the pleasure they get from satisfying hunger...
Louis B. Mayer was anxious to sign him up for a seven-year contract. Darryl Zanuck was eager to trust him with the leading role in a $3,000,000 production (Keys of the Kingdom), regardless of the fact that Peck was unknown and unwilling even to make a screen test. David Selznick, who now claims to have recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services...