Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's twin-towered Waldorf-Astoria, 125 of the season's debutantes danced their way into society while eager sub-debs looked enviously on. The event: the nth annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, to benefit the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. The sponsor: Coty...
Last week, after a month-long hurly-burly of tough talk and newspaper publicity, Steubenville's eager preachers were turned down. At the same time, 300 miles away in Louisville, Ky., the Committee on Institutions of the Louisville Council of Churches was applying its own method to the problem of local crime. To Steubenville's rampageous reformers the committee's methods might seem sissified. But they have one peculiar advantage: they are working...
Last week's stubborn set-to between a Harvard Freshman and a gasoline-powered passenger vehicle spotlighted the need for effective traffic control measures in the University area. The Cambridge gendarmerie, all too eager to enforce such rules as the "No overnight parking on the streets" ukase, seem to regard driver-pedestrian relations as the personal sphere of the parties concerned, with which it would be unsporting to interfere...
...giving this materiel, America were helping a democratic government subdue a rebellious minority harmful to an enlightened program. But in spite of the tactful whitewash masking the Kuomintang government, the reports trickling out of China point to Chiang, not as a liberal ruler, but as a feudal baron eager for an absolute dictatorship. Returning G.I.'s, foreign correspondents, and Madame Sun Yat Sen question the pledges of Chiang, with tales of concentration camps, gruesome political murders, and widespread governmental corruption. The reports state that instead of the supposed progress in Nationalist controlled areas, China is still wallowing in the same...
From the crowded visitors' gallery of the oak-paneled King's Bench courtroom, eager London School of Economics students last week gazed down on the witness box, where their mentor Harold Laski, with a shield of agile dialectics, nonchalantly deflected the barbs of an irate defense counsel...