Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woodwork, glass partitions, trim stenographers, pictures of the company's products−Hoover , Curtis, Coolidge, Dawes, McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Coolidge, James William Good. ... As in most G. O. P. offices this year, there is no picture of Product Harding. ... A telegraph instrument chatters with nervous importance down the hall. There are private wires, telephone as well as telegraph, to both Washington and New York. . . . Throngs of people, some important, some trying to look important, "confer" in standing groups of two, three, four. , . . Throngs of Mr. Good's assistants come, go, confer. One is named Hainer...
Colonist Clark said he would move the Casino, transform it into the headquarters of the Three Arts Association. It should be dedicated to music, drama, art. He ran into difficulties. Nervous colonists, fearing for velvety grass, symmetrical trees, refused to allow him to move it bodily. Accordingly, he pulled it down and moved it stick by stick to its new setting farther down the street. It became, the Berkshire Playhouse...
...nervous the day they questioned me. I don't know what I said!" And pretty Maria Elena Manzano sobbingly retracted...
...beats at the table while ragged micks in the streets threatened to "Fletcherize" their little enemies. Gradually, the fad died because people were too lazy or too busy with other things to give the required 45 strokes to every mouthful. One still sees the last adherents to Fletcherism, nervous and deliberate oldsters, attacking their soft boiled eggs with sly and dreary routine...
...date of the first match was postponed to Sept. 22 at the Meadow Brook Club, Westbury, Long Island. The reason for the change in date: the ponies of the Argentines have been increasingly coughing, suffering from influenza and laryngitis. So afflicted, ponies become weak, nervous, unpleasantly humored. But, late last week, the condition of the Argentine mounts was improved, and it seemed certain that Sept. 22 would see fast and proper polo...