Word: eager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important part of the Hoover and MacDonald attitude lies in the fact that each is eager to find a solution to the problem, and that in approaching it is this frank and informal way they are going far to create what Ramsay MacDonald so well stated was necessary to gain physical disarmament, namely, moral disarmament...
...Eager California newsgatherers boarded a train at Santa Barbara last week and rudely interrupted Berlin's crop-headed, saber-scarred Mayor Gustav Boess in a pinochle game...
...week. Hold-Up. Into the gay, smoke-filled ball room of the Palm Gardens road house came six young men with familiar faces. It was their fifth visit. Dutifully the swaying guests lined up along a wall, dutifully handed over $1,700 in cash, $7,500 in jewelry. But eager to please, the "baron robbers" this time added an innovation. They ordered "drinks for all, on the house," commanded the orchestra to play on. Guests with spirits revived continued to revel, forgot their losses, while the bandits returned jewels to all women who consented to be their dancing partners...
Bostonians Eager...
Tall, well set up, grave-faced and pleasant of voice, William Philip ("Phil") Simms, able Foreign Editor of the U.S. Scripps-Howard Newspapers, would make an impressive character witness. Last week he was back at his Washington desk from China. Eager to testify that in his opinion all is substantially well with Chinamen, he was soon tapping at his typewriter. Pungently he wrote...