Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With currency values ever decreasing in this financial chaos, the one thing you must not do, in Germany, of course, is to save your money. It is for that reason that people are so eager to draw their marks out of the banks and spend them before their value has decreased any further. Germany is moved by a feverish activity of spending, which is often misinterpreted as prosperity by those who do not understand the true conditions...
...lost my temper. ' Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni, who was in charge, stalked toward me, hit me squarely on the nose." Clara Clemens, daughter of the late Mark Twain: "At Town Hall, Manhattan, I gave a recital. Said the critics: 'Sincere, eager, creator of a poetic atmosphere . . . technical shortcomings as a singer . . . indistinct pronunciation.' My husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who usually is on hand to play my piano parts, was not present. Boris, King of Rumania: "The American press made much of a rumor that I plan to come to America in search...
...visit to Sir James Barrie in London. The author of "Peter Pan" had always been interested in O. Henry, and when he learned that Mrs. Porter was in London, he invited her to tea in his historic old home which looks out upon the Thames. Barrie was eager to talk of the American author. He had often wanted to come to the United States to meet O. Henry but could never make up his mind to take the voyage...
...total abstinence by all officials with appointive power and the executive guillotine for every Federal appointee, high and low, who privately or publicly drinks the liquor which our Constitution has outlawed. The President uttered wholesome, worthy sentiments in his conference with the Governors. . . . The friends of national sobriety were eager and are yet eager for him to smash every bottle in official Washington...
...chorus which had in its repertoire something besides "Good Night, Ladies" and the "Bulldog on the Bank." In the face of incredulity and disbelief, the conductor and his little group of serious thinkers ploughed bravely ahead until they had proved their point that college men were really just as eager to hear good music as mediocre...