Word: high-strung
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...rough & rowdy Washington Times-Herald, the fluttery, fastidious little man seemed as out of place as the publisher's high-strung poodles. Apple-cheeked Charles Bell Porter was no newsman but an esthete, a collector of rare stamps and Chinese porcelains, a Ph.D. in criminology from the university at Edinburgh, his native city. He liked to shut himself up in his office with a basket of fruit and play symphony records. But he also had a good head for figures, and that made him immensely valuable to Eleanor Medill Patterson. He was her treasurer and confidant...
Married. Ida Lupino, 30, high-strung Hollywood specialist in neurotic roles; and Collier Young, 39, Columbia studio executive; each for the second time; in La Jolla, Calif...
Born. To Frederick R. ("Ted") Schroeder Jr., 26, high-strung onetime U.S. tennis singles champ (1942), whose record-breaking 71-game match against Australia's Dinny Pails clinched the Davis Cup for the U.S. last year, and Anne de Windt Schroeder, 24: their second child, second son; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Richard Frederick. Weight...
...Doctors generally continue to regard it as a disease of high-strung victims of a jittery civilization-despite recent findings that certain West African natives also suffer from...
...feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...