Word: eager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current job is curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism at Harvard. There he rides herd on eager reporters who come to steep themselves in history, literature, sociology and talk with visiting pundits. This job took more time than Poet MacLeish bargained for. But unless he should make a laureateship out of the librarianship, his new job will take hours longer beyond reckoning. Poet MacLeish accepted it because, he said, it is one of those posts which "no man has a right to refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected...
...eager were the British to carry back the Cup this year, after five unsuccessful attempts, that they scoured the Empire for the best ponies they could get (the Nawab of Bhopal and the Maharaja of Kashmir, two of the richest men in India, donated eleven), shipped them to the U. S. six months in advance so that they could get acclimated, sent their best poloists almost half way round the world to California for four months of tuning-up matches against U. S. players. The 36-man, 64-horse expedition cost Britain's Hurlingham Polo Association...
...chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig Nazi Leader Helmuth Andres: Danzigers must remain quiet, even in the face of the worst Polish provocation. It is our responsibility not to force the Fiihrer in any way in the tempo he has chosen...
...homeward-bound student eager to avoid packing worries, Railway Express suggests planning beforehand, and orderly packing to eliviate the usual troubles...
...Eager to bolster its team for the coming futebl (soccer) season, Rio de Janeiro's Vasco da Gama club, one of coffee-growing Brazil's eight major-league futeból teams, tried last week to buy a famed Uruguayan player named Figliola. To their dismay, the Vasco da Gamas discovered that Figliola had already been signed up by a football club in Genoa, in coffee-hungry Italy. More eager than ever, they cabled Genoa, offered to buy his contract. Prompt was the reply: the Italian Football Federation would permit the Genoese club to release Figliola...