Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rounded discussion of a subject. Such an article Mr. Kent contributed, in August, 1924, to the American Mercury, nor is there any evidence that his point of view has shifted since that date. Entitled "Mr. Coolidge," the article began by maintaining that Washington correspondents, awed by the presidential office, eager for presidential esteem, always paint a President "a little prettier than...
...riding in a taxicab, allegedly shot himself (1923). Editor Daudet has always charged that the police "murdered" his son, and for this "defamation" he was sentenced, 18 months ago, to serve five months in jail. As the hour of 1 p. m. approached last week, tout Paris kept an eager ear for news that policemen had swarmed over sandbags and barbed wire, rushed the "Camelots" and dragged a plump, irate editor to jail. Instead it was a group of Communists who first molested the Royalist premises...
...Gimlet Eye," the "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," returned as Brigadier General last week to Tientsin, a city which he left just 27 years ago this month as a young Leatherneck Lieutenant, eager to do hand-to-hand battle with the slant-eyed "Boxers" who then held the Occidental quarter at Peking under murderous siege...
...were animated by the seed of truth and must therefore out, yet again subsiding in acknowledged error, and at the same time to see harvests of wealth and reputation won at first blush by those who could not wait to speak, yet lost upon the entrance of the next eager voice, this is, not perhaps to enjoy learning at all times, but to discover an unbroken path to continually greater wisdom. Restraint, seclusion, and observation are well-known watchwords of the simon pure student...
...with a large revolver or selling ice cream and cigars in his shop. He helped chase Billy the Kid, whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo, indicate the rough-and-tumble, hardbitten, gun-toting memoir on saddle-leather that this book...