Anagrams of: EHOPRT

• outstanding United States athlete (1887-1953)

• an excited state of agitation

• make upset or troubled

• make a fuss; be agitated

• a person who hopes

• (now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.

• One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.

• (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter; 10,000 phots equal 1 lux

• not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other

• recently past

• belonging to the distant past

• very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected