Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although one must look about him in St. Paul's for the memorial to Sir Christopher Wren, the Search is greatly expedited by a guide book which will point out to the eager novitiate the subtleties of construction--if one can speak with impunity of the subtleties of St. Paul's. Thus Mr. Adams could have presented his public with a competent Baedeker which is greatly needed by the novitiate. There is much in this sensitive, keen, and penetrating intellect that requires enlightenment. Burdened from youth with the consciousness of generations and of the necessities of success, Henry Adams drifted...
...this law, if passed, will force vice societies to prosecute not merely the owners of small bookshops, but the Simon and Shusters, too. When faced by the sort of opposition that the latter can offer, the self-appointed censors will be less eager to enforce their ethi-co-literary standards on the rest of the community. As matters now stand, independent book-sellers cannot afford to take up cases in court, but find it less costly to settle their difficulties by with-drawing the books in question. Thus there are very few test cases where publicity and opinions...
...42nd Street opposite Grand Central Station a crowd gathered in the magnificent Byzantine banking hall of the Bowery Savings Bank, largest private savings bank in the world, one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the U. S., famed for its conservatism and strength. Good natured but eager, bootblacks. Jewish matrons, silk-stockinged stenographers and shawled immigrants carried off cash from the paying windows. Three o'clock and the bank closed with a mob still at its doors. The banking disease had reached Manhattan, heart of the nation's banking system...
...broken. Shorts took fright: how long could the Exchange remain open? No time at all if great New York banks closed. And when exchanges close prices are usually higher at reopening-said those with memories of 1914. The market began to boil, prices to mount, traders to chime in, eager to own stocks if currency was going to depreciate, bank deposits to be tied...
Meeting hastily, the Hitler Cabinet discussed measures to expel from Germany all foreign correspondents, did not quite dare last week. Eager to catch a Red, several of the new "auxiliary police'' stormed the apartment of Dr. Lily Keith, Berlin representative of the Moscow Izvestia, while she telephoned the Soviet Ambassador. Bursting in. the "auxiliaries" ransacked Dr. Keith's rooms for two hours, dragged her off to jail. After the Soviet Government had officially demanded Correspondent Keith's release, she was turned loose. Meanwhile more than 350 German Communists (including Reichstag Deputies) were jailed and Berlin police...