Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the wettest, coldest summer in years?a summer that rotted potatoes in the ground in Ireland, nearly ruined the French wheat crop, brought disastrous business to summer resorts?all Europe fried last week. Newspapers, eager to blame anything from the cost of living to the morals of the younger generation on the U. S., wrote columns about the "American heat." Only wine and wheat growers rejoiced, hoped that the dry, hot weather would revive the remnant of their water-logged crops...
...accolade, the Daily News announced the retirement of the oldest U. S. woman theatre reviewer. "Think of a woman," marveled Author Ade, now aged 64, "going to the theatre several times a week for at least 40 years and keeping her girlish enthusiasm for the drama and retaining her eager interest in play actors and lavishing upon a languishing art a glittering and figurative vocabulary that was always ebullient and never seemed to repeat!" Said Producer George M. Cohan: "Amy Leslie may retire 1,000 times but she will always be a part of the American theatre. ... I have personally...
...Eager to impress French readers with the "warlike spirit" of Germany, Le Journal reproduced the design of the new German coins, headlined the coin's motto: "The Rhine, Germany's River, Not Germany's Frontier...
Bachelor Bennett, eager for work, presented himself not only as Prime Minister, but as Secretary of State for External Affairs and Minister of Finance. Others in his Cabinet, sworn in last week...
...world's fashions, all was feverish activity last week. U. S. department store buyers and fashion reporters, newsgatherers and ladies of the haute monde scurried from one fashion house to the next, for it was the official Fall Opening. They and the waiting world were eager to learn what the well-dressed woman must wear for the next six months...