The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press