Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhausted opponent, barely got past a Californian named Jack Tidball in the semifinals. He had already confessed that he did not expect to regain the U. S. championship this year and the readiness with which he had turned his hand to writing for publication suggested that he was eager to capitalize his laurels while he had them. Vines had beaten him in the finals at Longwood two weeks before; tennis enthusiasts at Sea Bright felt sure that he would solace his disappointment of a year ago by beating Doeg again...
Ever since the 18th Century, the U. S. has been a land of hope for poverty-stricken Irishmen eager to leave their tax-ridden bogs. But last week Irish Free State officials announced that in the first six months of 1931 only 476 persons emigrated to the U. S. from the Irish Free State, compared to 868 for the corresponding period in 1930. U. S. emigrants to the Free State totalled 1,080 in that period against 621 for the first six months...
...cooked up and kept alive by artificial respiration in the dizzy scramble for circulation. Notable was the case of "Uncle Cocoa" Rodgers ("Daddy" Browning) and "Sugar Plum'' McGinnis ("Peaches" Heenan), whose queasy romance and parting were practically engineered in the Comet's editorial rooms. With the eager connivance of the exhibitionist Uncle Cocoa, the Comet's reporters wrote his and his wife's "own stories" of their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts to keep them on the front pages. So, too, for need of a current "master mind of crime," a dullwitted hoodlum named...
Practically forgotten when he returned to Manhattan after another London venture last autumn, Morton Downey owes his present affluence largely to Columbia's William S. Paley. Able Salesman Paley, eager to entice Camel advertising from the National Broadcasting Co., persuaded him to sing a sample program through a long-distance telephone to Winston-Salem, N. C., where it was relayed to Camel executives through a local station. It was an ideal episode for his recrudescent success story for Downey did his telephonic trial while his wife was undergoing a surgical operation...
...mansion built at Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. by the late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker with part of the fortune which she made from the sales of hair-straightener to other Negroes, was offered at auction. But in contrast to the eager crowds who scrambled to buy the furnishings last winter (TIME, Dec. 8) only a few desultory bidders appeared at "Villa Lewaro." Their dim enthusiasm became dimmer when the famed $25,000 organ in the house refused to play. The housekeeper who alone knew the secret of its operation was absent. When nothing better than...