Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have appeared at international conferences where America, if present at all, should have been present as an equal among equals. When, but yesterday, three Americans went to the Conference on Reparations, whose fruitful outcome all the world desires, Washington was prompt to disclaim all responsibility for their going though eager to take credit for whatever they might accomplish. We must face the humiliating fact that we have a government that does not dare to speak its mind beyond the three mile limit...
Lord Dunsany jocosely boasts himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath. He shambles about the Irish countryside, an excessively tall, loose-jointed, rawboned figure, with a heron-like stoop and enormous cranium. He has the simple, eager nature of a child, always ready to converse with voluble intimacy with any casual acquaintance or to fly up in unaccountable excitement over the most trifling pleasure or displeasure. His fairy stories, written rather for grown-ups than for children, have all the imaginative charm of Grimm or Anderson and in addition show the versatility and richness of a more...
Hardly had the little feet of smiling Masanao Hanihara, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., touched his native soil when eager reporters "nailed...
...Senator Couzens is recovered, reanimated with the lust of life and investigation. Mr. Couzens and the two Democratic members of the Com- mittee, Senators King of Utah and Jones of New Mexico, were eager to reopen the inquiry...
...short, wiry, nervous, eager, tremendously serious. I have talked with him only once, but it is impossible to forget this dark, vivid little man. No man who was not serious could be so successful, or could take the pains he does in collecting material for his stories. His new novel, to be called Wild Horse Mesa, is about a great mesa which rises above the canyon country of southern Utah. Mr. Grey has made three attempts to climb this piece of land, in order to provide the climax for his novel?each time he has failed. The climax...