Word: high-strung
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Barking orders to police cars by radio as he tears around Tokyo in his "Police Station On Wheels," slim, high-strung Chief of Police Shohei Fujinuma looks the picture of a genial, super-progressive 20th Century Japanese. One day last week the visiting puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, whose State junket to Tokyo has cost Japan $1,000,000 (TIME, April 15), departed laden with $150,000 worth of gifts, observing with Chinese dryness, "I should like to repeat this visit soon." Next morning Police Chief Fujinuma called in Japanese reporters, publicly sighed short pants of relief and gave them their...
...girls were Elizabeth and Jane du Bois, only children of Coert du Bois, U. S. Consul General at Naples. Jane, 20, dominated her 23-year old sister. Both were sensitive, high-strung. Few weeks before, they had become very much attached to two British Royal Air Force officers who had been delayed at Naples on a flight to Singapore. One of the officers planned to break his engagement to a Bedfordshire dancing instructress to marry Jane. The other officer had an "understanding" with Elizabeth. Few hours after the officers left Naples they crashed in Sicily, died in flames...
...degree as he. Schubert was born in January, and Ruth also has degrees in common with his. . . . She has planets in the same degree as Beethoven, and within ten years her Jupiter will have progressed to the same degree as his when he wrote his Eroica. . . . She will be high-strung and temperamental...
Next the lean, high-strung Generalissimo conferred with his moon-faced low-strung brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, easy-going Finance Minister. Shanghai buzzed with rumors that President Roosevelt's upping of the price of silver was about to force Chiang and Kung to take China's standard dollar off its white metal base...
...Lean, high-strung Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, big boss of the young Chinese Nationalist Government, worries mightily about the old Chinese virtues of his people. What time he can spare from Communism, Famine, Flood, and Japan he devotes to a moral crusade of his own invention known as the New Life Movement. Neatly codified, the N. L. M. contains such rules...