Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conversations, the bus top was the ideal place for garnering a store of epithets, tender and vituperative. That may be; but I am practically certain that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy of his ex-pressions?but I am sure of the spirit of them?and, therefore, they are nearer right than any academicians' accurate transcription of dialogue could...
...leave of absense from the University during the past half-year, and on account of ill-health that leave has been extended to include the entire year. For this reason also his annual Thanksgiving and Christmas readings at the Union were omitted last fall. In response to the eager requests of Union members, with whom his readings have been extremely popular for several years, he will, however, read there on February...
...story of the eager young journalist who, after swearing by G--, that his editorials were never colored by the advertising, was told that they never had much color anyhow, is just as pathetic...
...tousled yellow hair engagingly, introduced me to the beautiful lady with whom he was dancing and sat down. They were Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Scott seems to have changed not one whit from the first time I met him at Princeton, when he was an eager undergraduate bent upon becoming a great author. He is still eager. He is still bent upon becoming a great author. He is at work now on a novel which his wife assures me is far far better than either This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful, and Damned, but like most...
...printed lectures, which it is said will destroy the "aristocracy of brains" and "reduce exisiting universities to mere laboratories for the lecture publisher" will attract the eager attention of everyone who seeks a now way to learn old facts. The plan of the People's Institute, which will direct the publication is to teach the public at large the academic, or so-called "cultural" subjects by means of constantly revised and modernized lectures by some of the best teachers, printed and broadcasted in a convenient form...