Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance by which Mr. Blythe printed these things just when the public was eager to read them, did not end there, however. Just before the President died Mrs. Harding was reading to him, and she was reading from Mr. Blythe's article. There are various accounts of the President's last utterance, disagreeing as to the exact words, but agreeing in substance. One account had it that he said: "That's good, go on;" another that he said: "It was fine of Sam to say that...
...rises to supremacy through her magnificent repression, her submersion of personality in her part, her eager spirit. For years she would use no makeup. She preferred to make her entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor. All her life she shunned publicity. Bernard Shaw declared her incomparably the superior of Bernhardt, after witnessing their rival interpretations of La Dame aux Camellias...
...unstable rent and construction situation; 4) the demands of organized labor; 5) the alarms and excursions caused by our politicians over the slowly approaching Presidential campaign. The mood of business in general is therefore reflected accurately by the stock market-dull trading, firm prices, a hesitancy curious rather than eager, and an apathy complacent rather than discouraged...
...group and District 1 recently chose as its leader, by an overwhelming vote, Rinaldo Cappellini, young Italian "radical." The defeated candidate, William J. Brennan, backed by the Lewis administration, retires from the Presidency of his district on August 1. But already young Cappellini is eager to seize the reins...
...literature as he now sees them about him. This giant of the Nineteenth Century finds himself faithful to his gods; but interested in the facts of life as they are changing before him. He is not querulous; but of an absorbed old age which is akin to an eager youth. Among English writers, he advises both Walter de la Mare and John Galsworthy. These, he thinks, are the giants of today's literary England, if giants there...