Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls. All sat raptly silent along the wainscoted wall, while speaker followed speaker at the highly-polished wooden reading stand. The occasion: a course of studies on existentialism under the auspices of the Vatican's Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas...
...Conways, who still confess to enchantment, put the case with good sense and good nature: Santiago, Floreana and a few of the other Galápagos are all right for hardy folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which...
...their $100-a-plate dinner. Over coffee and cigars, Gael Sullivan, the Democrats' national executive director, served up the main political fare. Said he: "In front of us today we have a leader-tested and triumphant. He is ... confident because of the people's confidence . . . eager to see and do the right because his, hopes have an abiding kinship with the people's hopes...
...readers for the Daily Mail (now 1,900,000), which has lagged far behind Beaverbrook's giant Express (3,700,000) and the tabloid, Labor-loving Mirror (3,400,000) since the Government took the lid off circulations. Hard-handsome, hard-talking, hard-drinking Frank Owen, once an eager Beaver-boy himself, seemed...
...family tree was an exfoliation of the eager 19th Century British mind. His uncle, Arnold Toynbee, economist, author of The Industrial Revolution, and possessor of a restless social conscience, died when he was only 31. But he so impressed his contemporaries that they named Toynbee Hall, first of London's East End social settlements, in his honor. Toynbee's father was a social worker. Toynbee's mother was one of the first British women to receive a college degree.* The Golden Age shed its westering light over young Toynbee in the guise of a thorough classical training...