Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before any decision had been announced in the cases of sailors who were a month ago accused of smuggling five girls aboard four navy vessels (TIME, April 23), one of these baggages appeared in Manhattan, eager to talk to newsgatherers. Her name, she asserted on various occasions, was Rumilda, Murilda or Ramilda Avery. When taken off the destroyer Sands a month ago, she had claimed to be a waitress...
Five thousand eager Yorkshire women sought to crawl into a small theatre, at Bradford last week, to view an instructive sex film entitled The Dangers of Innocence...
...dark faces began to gleam with excitement. Black Bishops Abraham Lincoln Gaines, William Tecumseh Vernon, J. Albert Johnson and William H. Heard were haled before the Conference, charged with misappropriation of funds or maladministration of the law. Then there came the matter of electing four bishops out of 100 eager candidates. Wild scenes occurred. Presiding Bishop William Sampson, making himself heard above the storm, cried that a motion to adjourn was out of order. Thinking this an unfair move in favor of a rival candidate for a bishopric the Rev. R. L. Pope of Indianapolis climbed to the rostrum...
...Eager to establish the rights of atheists in the U. S., Charles Lee Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, chose to send godless propaganda to the Rev. Dr. John
...biggest crowd ever seen in Christie's auction rooms assembled last week for the first day of the auction of the late Sir George Lindsay Holford's collection. The throng included Dutch bidders eager to retrieve native masterpieces, English bidders eager to keep the best of the Holford collection in England, and American bidders, most powerful of all, who were only eager to buy the pictures and sell them for gain. When the sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went...