Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eager newsmen pressed about the prison for detailed news of Convict Sinclair's daily doings. An order was issued barring them from the jail. Washington newspapers became indignant. In the U. S. Senate, Alabama's ever-loud Heflin denounced "this truckling to a vulgar millionaire." The Sinclair privacy became an editorial issue. The order was rescinded, the Press re-entered the jail...
Crowds swarmed through massive wrought iron gates eager to see what Primo de Rivera's new Spain had to offer the world; what exhibits had been prepared by Portugal, by the U. S. and nine other American republics whose relations with Spain the Ibero-American Exposition was meant to improve...
...Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest that Irish-born Bishop Thomas James Garland of Pennsylvania, a fibrous old gentleman of 62, was a man with whom other, younger men, were not eager to work. Bishop Garland parried this suggestion with a wry suggestion of his own. "They all seem to be afraid of hard work," he said. "It rather amuses me" (TIME, March...
Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov continued in Geneva last week his sport of making it appear that Soviet Russia and Germany are the only Great Powers which are ready and eager to join the U. S. in championing President Herbert Hoover's thesis that the nations must now strive to achieve not limitation but reduction of armaments (TIME...
President Hoover is understood to have been eager for some time to obtain the services of the dean. He is an outstanding legal expert, is not identified with either side of the prohibition controversy, and is prominent in the direction of the Harvard Crime Survey in Suffolk Country...