Word: fidgets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sounds as ominously suggestive of the passing of time as the regular tramp of feet. Guilty men hear in it the approaching minions of the law and in their terror rush to confess. The imaginative are reminded of tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative, and are even inclined...