Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Democracy is such a study. Readers are not likely to rank it (as his eager-beaver publishers do) with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) and Lord Bryce's American Commonwealth (1888). But they will find that it stands head & shoulders above the kind of superficial once-over exemplified by, say, John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (TIME, June...
...sharply mannered that it is a continuous muted dance. But too little of the remarkable vitality and grace are really his own. He has drawn heavily on John Barrymore and still more heavily on Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and his imitations, almost the more because they are so apt and eager, are as unhappy to watch as any other forged masterpiece. Besides, he has to deliver a good deal of ornate language in his deep-city Irish-American diction, very good of itself, but inappropriate here. The total effect of the picture is "entertainment" troubled by delusions of "art," and vice...
...test; it may well be started by big blocs of votes from Stassen's following. This is also the point of greatest pressure on the large delegations, which hold the key to nomination. If Bob Taft fails to hold his strength, Illinois' Governor Dwight Green, who is eager to be Vice President, might decide to flip over his state's 56 votes to Dewey. Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, who wants Vandenberg to win, might lose to Dewey some of the 40-plus (out of 73) delegates he controls...
Danny waited, eager but businesslike. No money had yet changed hands. "You don't buy pork chops without seeing them on the scales," said Danny...
...getting so a regular customer couldn't be sure of a place to sit; eager-eyed newcomers were beginning to crowd the nation's 4,200-plus brokerage offices. The public was not doing much buying yet-it was still a professional's market-but moving ticker tape was once again a sight to see, and dreams of quick killings were again dreams to dream. Wall Street was nursing a baby bull, and a lot of cow-eyed mother love was suddenly loose in the land...