Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladies, Please! Rich or poor, black or white, married or single, women were so eager to sign up that many went without breakfast. Bosses waited in vain for secretaries, nurses arrived late and breathless at hospitals, dishes went unwashed and floors unswept. Some housewives had plans complete for Junior to stay with Grandma for the duration. One mother and daughter would not give their names for fear, Papa would find out. A Washington girl had just accompanied her boy friend to the Marines' recruiting office. A Philadelphia girl would not let photographers take her picture lest her sister find...
...Home Guard had not always been respectable. It rose like a garish, un-British emanation from the bomb rubble of 1940's blitz. In those days its members practiced slitting throats with cheese cutters on gloomy Sunday mornings, reached out eager hands for nonexistent tommy guns, concocted tin-can explosives in the basement and took a desperate delight in the macabre techniques of Spanish Civil War guerrillas. But by last week the Home Guard had dressed ranks and counted off: on its second birthday, King George VI himself, the trade-mark of British character, became the Home Guard...
...learn how to fight fires and repair bomb damage. Others, given "the privilege of defending their homeland against invasion," march and train with oldsters in the Home Guard. More than a million youngsters are on call for national service. Thousands of others learn navigation, signaling and aircraft identification in eager preparation for enlistment at 18 in the services. Most popular service-training organization is the Air Training Cadets, with 1,444 squadrons and 177,310 members...
...this stringently lean theatre year, whether to stifling commercialism or to a dearth of scripts or ideas, the fact remains that the future of the American Theatre lies far from New York. As shown by the great interest in the small community players' club across the country, people are eager to see more of the legitimate theatre. The answer to their hunger is not a number two company of "Blossom Time," travelling up and down the country till the blossoms fade. Broadway professes to satisfy the "road" in this manner; but a worn-out road company of Shubert actors...
...much concerned about the sanctity of the curriculum. . . . I find that impromptu classes are starting up all over the Hill in such fields as military history or geography. . . . This is all to the good. If it persists, we may find our boys actually eager for education. . . . Like everybody else, we are devising plans for curtailing expenses, eliminating waste, reducing the number of comforts and luxuries. All this helps the war, but is also good for the soul...