Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Katherine Eager Straton, 15, daughter of Rev. John Roach Straton, of spinal meningitis, at Atlanta...
...American ship owners, appeared in New York, and made several speeches stamped with his incisive personality. A Scotsman by birth, the self-made magnate of American Pacific Shipping, the leader of the unsuccessful right against the La Follette Seamen's Bill, he is still, although nearly 80, the eager champion of an American privately owned merchant marine...
...known by their books. The immense library of the late Professor James, with the pencilled annotations with which he improved it, would probably reveal his personality as thoroughly as his philosophical writings, his informal essays, or even his delightful letters. A search of these books would show an eager curiosity, a quick and imaginative power of relating one statement or idea with another, an orderliness of mind, and a versatile interest. In the part of his library which has recently been given to the University, the most valuable of his books are assembled, and they make up an encyclopedia...
...according to publishers, there is both a crying need for and a wide opportunity open to a writer for boys who possesses a little more than the usual bag of tricks. The audience is immense and vastly eager-it does not require the skill of a Conrad to move its members. Only deliberate affectation or tediousness they will not tolerate-and in those respects they are extremely hard to fool...
With this evil distraction ever-present how can the eager student obtain the seclusion essential to great, solitary minds? To test out my theory, I went to the Copley Plaza this evening where Boston's social life centres in all its worst aspects. I had determined to show my complete unconsciousness of all that stupidity of convention which these people affect. I wore my usual quiet air of assurance and my customary yellow flannel shirt (I should have preferred my other one,--which is more appropriately black,--but that I left at the Comrades' headquarters in New York) which...