Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...points in the Memoirs are Mr. Wilson's soon-to-be-notorious love story, The Princess with the Golden Hair, and The Milhollands and Their Damned Soul. The Milhollands is an uproarious allfours romp through the whole world of U.S. writing, publishing and book-promotion. There is the eager young Yaleman who, after feeling that his "generation" has been "betrayed," first by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, then by the Marxists, winds up ballyhooing bellywash on national hookups. There is the Purity League's investigation of the Booklover when its personal columns sprout a rash of "advertisements...
...furnished on behalf of the U.S. working class and of its well-wishers. Psychologically, the story is weak in its failure to convince the reader that a man of the narrator's intelligence could pursue Imogen for two years without suspecting her obvious neurosis. Censors and eager beavers will be satisfied by certain passages which cannot be quoted in a magazine; adult readers may not be. It is possible to respect Edmund Wilson's intention and attempt without feeling that he has succeeded in what he tried...
...over, republics like Honduras, four-fifths of whose business was in bananas, were eager for normalcy. The $190,000,000 United Fruit Co., with an annual budget bigger than that of any Central American country, had a stake at least as big. But wartime had brought changes...
Without Conditions. In Waukesha, Wis., a Hawaiian student's eager plea for admission was taken under consideration by the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys-a reform school...
...this, SEC suspended Van Alstyne Noel for ten days from the National Association of Security Dealers, Inc., in effect, barred it from underwriting for that period. Andy would have to find another broker. And Wall Streeters now might not be so eager to buy his stock...