Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will employ the most invidious devices that selfish interest and muddled idealism can muster. Among other things the opposition will not hesitate to impute your actions to unpatriotic motives. But such a struggle as yours, properly conceived, means infinitely more than the easy gestures which your opponents are so eager to provide. Yours will be a course even more unpopular in the months to come than it is new, a course in which you must prepare to act as sufferers who will probably fail to convert any of the opposition. I know, however, that you can count on the support...
...Canada the newly elected Dominion Parliament met for the first time. Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had behind him 182 seats in a House of 245. Opposition Leader Richard Burpee Hanson, elected in caucus last week by the beaten Canadian Conservatives, was eager to jump on the Empire defense band wagon of Winston Churchill. Only criticism hurled at Canada's Prime Minister last week in Ottawa was that the Dominion is not being prepared for war. That was the issue on which the election had been held...
...steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
Three of them are Yalemen; all of them want to be better. One of them started life (after Yale '28) as a floorwalker in Macy's, eager to learn in that temple the arcana of business success. He later got a job with FORTUNE. One was a Chicago boy who (after Yale '27) wandered to Spain, North Africa, Florida in search of the right place to sit down and write. One (an indispensable one) had money: a Yale ('28) esthete whose Manhattan family helped manage the Revolution (1776) and has since been so well-satisfied with...
Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...