Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their brave words and eager hands, the twelve had a lot of "mopping up" to do. Paris still had intractable citizens who liked to look at more recognizable pictures. After 5½ years in Manhattan, Painter Marcel Vertes had just returned to Paris to open a show of the pastel, boyish maidens who have long decorated the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and sold Schiaparelli perfume in the U.S. A dozen gendarmes were needed to keep order at Vertes' opening, and all 50 of his agelessly sweet and sexy pictures sold out in a few hours...
Said Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Sheil: "Of all the priests I know, Abbot Ondrak has been most generous and most eager in his response to the Church's wish for priests who, in the words of Pope Pius XI, dedicate the better part of their endeavors and their zeal to winning back the laboring masses to Christ and to His Church. He has battled against economic injustices. . . . He has . . . battled . . . against unemployment, insecurity, disease and crime. . . . Because of him, and men like him, no one can say that the [Roman] Catholic Church is irrelevant today...
...answer to the requests of the polled Freshmen, ping-pong tables and a music and record room will soon be available for student use. Plans are also underway for a darkroom to supply the needs of eager student photographers...
...College, that their building had been rented out over the editors' heads, and that the magazine had ceased operations in 1943 considerably in debt. Whether or not these reasons were real or imagined, there is no cause for their continued existence. There are many men in the College today eager to work on a literary magazine, just as there are at countless colleges throughout the country, many of which are smaller than Harvard. The building space in the Advocate building is now available and certainly the paying of any debt incurred by the pre-war Advocate could mean no more...
...blind Americans and undercover Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither around the stage, eager to rehoist the banner of fascism, and badly oriented American troops sell nylons and democracy for nightly fraternization. These are all familiar themes, stories that fill the columns of our daily papers. But the effect of the news releases cannot approach the impact achieved by portraying the scenes...