Word: nerviest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called his city desk, gave the verdict...
Merola is no Toscanini but he is probably the world's nerviest, luckiest conductor. Some years ago he gave open-air opera at Stanford Stadium, lost his Italian backers a tidy sum. But at just the right time each evening a full moon rose...