Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grouse and Partridge flourish in most U. S. woods, which they fill with the muffled thunder of their wings. Grousing is the especial sport of certain writers, notably W. O. McGeehan who is eager to investigate the woods of Pennsylvania in company of Damon Runyon...
...this rushing to and fro by the fiscal heads of. Europe arose a popular impression that sweeping action would be taken at once. At the very least it seemed that the lukewarmness of Chancellor Churchill had been transformed into eager cooperation. Perhaps the Great Powers were on the eve of formally consummating the project first dreamed at Thoiry...
Queried an eager correspondent of Henry Ford over the telephone: "Do you know, sir, that the Chinese are sending you an invitation? They want you to become Honorary Economic Advisor to their new National Government...
...Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
...children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with her); nor for the girl's wild-faun beauty which ruthlessly lures the stepmother's brother, traps his eager senses, torments his touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove the necessity of something more than a "Great Design" behind evolutionary progress, but he does write an engrossing story packed with engaging data on the younger generation full of life, the older generation full of ideas...