Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short howls of mournful hopelessness. A long rattling crescendo of protesting crashes, And a great voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal...
...example of his advice is: treat intuitions tenderly. "The moment we feel their presence, it is as if we saw the ripple over Bethesda and we ought to know that our chance is near. Silence, both exterior and interior, should prevail; we ought to be attentive but not eager or, above all, curious. The beautiful visitor is like a butterfly, no longer the same when caught...
...chief undercover Hooverizer of the South during the campaign, was established in a Miami Beach hotel to greet Southern politicians of all colors and conditions; to listen to their tales, dispel their fears, promise them nothing. Meanwhile, into the Hoover presence were ushered a few Southern gentlemen, ponderously respectable, eager to impart advice, to deplore the Negro's domination of Southern Republican politics. Infinitely patient, the President-Elect listened and listened...
...nothing more disturbing than an affectionate note from Lieut. James H. Carrington, U.S.N., to his wife, it was swiftly despatched to Havana, there to be relayed by air mail to the Carrington home in California. But rarely had a note from a Naval lieutenant to his wife caused such eager discussion...
...Harvard, where he went in 1906 from his chaste Brookline home, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little showed eager interest in science, in genetics, in the study of cancer. There in 1912, he took an M. S., two years later passed examinations for the doctorate of Science...