Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Copeland, the physician who recenty arrived in national politics from the State of New York, is preparing a resolution requesting President Coolidge to call an international economic conference. The Administration wants no conference while France is in her present mood. But Democrats believe that the farmers are eager for a conference that will stabilize European finance. A union of Democrats and the Farm Bloc on this proposal might easily embarrass the Administration...
Maugham is dark, pale - with eager, somewhat quizzical eyes. He is detached. I cannot imagine his being perturbed. His speech is slow and his anecdotes are brilliantly effective. He strikes me as a man who sits outside of life watching with almost cat-like eagerness. He understands life too well, he is top aware of events to treat them with tenderness. Perhaps this is because he was at one time a doctor -or, at least, took a degree in medicine...
...varying success. Both as a dramatist and novelist he possesses, it seems to me, two distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow as subtle as life itself; Somerset Maugham, bending toward him, quiet, dark, reserved, cynical, observant, interpretative. They are both geniuses-they almost represent the two types of genius-spontaneous creation of life and analytical sounding...
...Cassandra, but a modest share of disbelief usually attends the prophecies of a statesman. His prediction of a "peace of the English" is not likely to prove an exception. Centuries ago a Romar, far from the golden mile-stone, was secure in a barbaric world, because the legions were eager to enforce the Pax Romana with their broadswords. While it may be true in the present age there can be no peace in the world without an understanding among the English speaking nations that war shall be prohibited yet unless England and the United States stands prepared to wield more...
...Democratic (or minority) Party took a more moderate position. It stands for Philippine independence, which is too popular among the people to bear opposition. But it assails the Quezon-Osmena bosses as grossly corrupt, and is eager to stand behind the Governor in any disclosures he can make of the mismanagement and private ambition of the Quezon group. It is demanding an investigation of expenditures from the Independence Fund which, it is claimed, Quezon and others have misused. In brief, the Democrats regard Quezon as a greater evil than Wood. In the election they lost the city of Manila...