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Word: eagerness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway houses. The situation has completely changed since then, and the ads of new and original theatre groups bid for one's attention in the Sunday Times. This has come about through the demands of both the actors and their patrons. In everything from old cabarets to settlement houses, eager young actors and actresses are producing the gamut from the classics to the esoteric avant garde works more or less native to the Village...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Off-Broadway | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

...True What They Say About Dixie? Composer Caesar is no stranger to tax songs. In 1946 he turned out a children's tune called Tommy Tax ("Who pays our smiling Postman/ For toting heavy sacks? Who-oo You-oo/ And little Tommy Tax"), and was eager to write another. In a flash Tunesmith Caesar shipped off to IRS a high-stepping, bugley march called The Red White and Blue Can't Live on Your I.O.U.: "When you pay your taxes, pay enough/ Uncle Sam is getting grey enough./ It pays for defense/ Expense is immense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The 1040 Blues | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...well signal that spread to the four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Together Again | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...according to Joseph Hurd '60, head of the Union Committee, two of the bigest pitfalls are actually College organizations, the Yearbook and the Student Council. He explained that the Council, through its eager solicitation of unwary freshmen during the first days of the year, is able to raise half of its total funds for the year from that class alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Group Asks Voice On Council's Booklet | 2/20/1957 | See Source »

Much of the answer to the dissatisfaction lies in the over-eager attitude the Dartmouth undergraduate has towards this event. The frustration inherent in the long journey to Smith or Vassar every weekend where the conditions are not exactly ideal is understandable, as is his hope for satisfaction during the course of the Carnival. But universal success can hardly be hoped for considering the sort of personality required to put out this sort of briefing for the Carnival date. "Sleep. Do it all before you arrive 'cause those strong, starved outdoorsmen as well as tweedy, pudgy pals have so much...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: The Perennial Function | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

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