Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with his cigar at a happy angle. The front feet of the chair turned to earth when the questioning began, but the smile remained and the cigar rolled easily about between answers which were not without a certain eager humor. The questions paralleled those asked of Candidate Hoover, though they were put less pressingly, in less finicky detail...
That feat, which inscrutable "Boss" Irigoyen accomplished without making a single campaign speech, might well attract U. S. attention. Instead, last week, while the final Argentine ballots were being counted, eager U. S. citizens were snapping up in best selling quantities a book called The Road to Buenos Ayres.* The snappers neither knew nor cared about Argentina's President-Elect; but they eagerly scanned the new best seller because it tells how exceedingly women of the class called "White Slaves" flourish in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina...
...Father. This is August Strindberg's furious fancy about a man who married an incredibly mean wife. Eager to hold absolute control of her daughter, she drove her husband mad, then poisoned him. As ineptly performed by Robert Whittier, who puffed and bellowed like a sick seal, the play is lightened of its hatred, its horror, and, indeed, of any effect...
Tomorrow a Harvard delegation will leave to attend the intercollegiate Democratic convention at Northampton. A bus will leave the Union at 9.30 o'clock, carrying all Harvard men who are able and eager to make the trip. Costs of the round trip will be five dollars and 75 cents...
...leaving the sticky streets, the rich citizens of London return to town for a spring of gayeties. The yearly exhibition of paintings at the Royal Academy opens the season. To the Academy's doors came last week lords and ladies, all the best people who live in London, eager to see the pictures and excited at the prospect of saying how-do-you-do to friends they had not seen since the autumn shooting in Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill, with three Anglo-Indian ladies, Painter Sir John Lavery with his lady, Margot Asquith, an enormous smile twitching under...