Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like pre-war--almost, that is, except for the crowd, which left great bare places in the Stadium that were more reminiscent of "informal" games than of 1941 or '42. The band was there, and the cheerleaders, and even Coach Harlow sitting grim as over in back of his eager players, neat but not gaudy in his blue worsted and Varsity Club...
American opposition to the exclusion of Spain is a partial result of pressure from U. S. airlines eager for Spanish airfields with which to tap the lucrative European air market. As has been too often the case in our domestic history, the realities of profit and loss statements have now been substituted for moral value in our present foreign policy. Only in those instances where the prospect of capital gain has not been a factor has our policy towards Franco been uncompromising. Such a case arose at Lake Success last week when the United States joined with the other nations...
Critics were eager to see Eileen Herlie in something less artificial than Cocteau in order to check their judgments. Hollywood is interested in her, too, but she wants to "dabble quietly before taking the plunge." The big money does hot excite her; she lives quite comfortably on her ?20 a week-top pay for The Company of Four-shares a house with two other women, a composer and a ballet dancer. The "horrible din" of their combined professional exercises doubtless explains why husband Philip Barrett continues to produce his road shows...
...fall of 1941, a shrewd Irishwoman named Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett surrounded herself with eager young literary men and started a magazine in Manhattan. She gave showy cocktail parties in her penthouse to introduce herself to the trade. The trade learned that Mrs. Garrett was a "celebrated international medium," who claimed powers of clairvoyance, telepathy and prevision.* The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision. Last week Eileen Garrett's Tomorrow had its third editor in 60 days...
...queen begin her reproductive life? Dr. Schneirla is not sure, but he has a theory. While the queen is in a bivouac, she is always surrounded by a dense mass of workers, which struggle wildly to lick some substance exuded by her body. The males, no matter how eager, cannot get anywhere near...