Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eager to get an early start on the '51 Redbook, Robert S. Leventhal '48, Student Council advisor, yesterday announced that a temporary committee would shortly be formed to do preliminary spadework...
...trial whirl. After a brief conference, Missouri's National Committeeman Barak T. Mattingly unhesitatingly announced that Tom Dewey would be nominated on the first ballot. He said that Dewey was already assured of 420 of the approximately 547 votes he needed to win, that Missouri was overwhelmingly eager to follow the Dewey standard. For the rest of his "vacation," Tom Dewey would do his best to make that spirit contagious...
...days after he leased a five-room, $150-a-month Manhattan apartment, Student Benjamin Chilman, 19, advertised it for rent, collected $6,500 in advance from seven eager sublessees, gave each a phony key and told them all they could move in on the same day. Thanks to a suspicious eighth tenant, police moved in instead...
...Davidson had wired that he would take his beard out of politics. P.C.A, quickly found a new man: California's fast-talking Robert Kenny, ex-state attorney general, onetime unsuccessful candidate for governor, leftist Democratic opponent of the state's Democratic right wing, and, of course, an eager supporter of Henry Wallace for President...
...James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall, it dawns on her that...