Word: high-strung
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...daughter, now 24, fought through to the final round of the Women's National Amateur Golf Championship at the Franklin Hills Country Club (Detroit). Her opponent was Fellow Atlantan Dorothy Kirby, who is considered, by home-towners, a shade the better. Dorothy, whose playing form is good, is high-strung, and apt to show it under pressure. Louise is a trim 5 ft. 3 in., with a roundhouse swing that would look good on a ballplayer swinging for the fences...
...Miami Beach, which has been rather quiet, arrived Virginia Hill, high-strung girl friend of the late Gangster Bugsy Siegel. Virginia had flown from France, where she had swung at a reporter and kicked at photographers. Police met her at New York and engaged her in private chitchat between planes. On the Miami airfield she told reporters she had nothing to say, and, between chomps on her gum, asked them if they didn't understand English. She then joined the police again. They took her to her classy island home in Biscayne Bay, where she settled down to enjoy...
Custer's wife was then at Fort Riley. When Custer, leading an Indian-hunting expedition in the field, heard of the cholera outbreak, he promptly rode off from his cavalry regiment and hastened to the fort. That led to a court-martial and thorough humiliation of the high-strung young officer. His trial brought out other charges. He had once abandoned a detachment of his troops to annihilation by Indians (an unpardonable sin in the Army's Indian-fighting code). Custer was sentenced to loss of rank and pay for one year. Dr. Hawley's analysis...
...high-strung standards of modern psychiatry, perfectly "normal" people are fairly rare. One top authority gave the solemn opinion last week that in the whole U.S. there are only about 1,000,000 such folks, i.e., those who have no anxieties, no fears, no strong prejudices, no attractive vices. Everyone else he classifies as being, in great or small degree, on the abnormal side...
Born. To Bette Davis, 39, high-strung cinemactress, and Painter (ex-boxer) William Grant Sherry, 32, her third husband: her first child, a girl, on May Day, which Bette chose for her Caesarian section; in Santa Ana, Calif. Name: Barbara Davis Sherry. Weight...