Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nervous and loyal Britons were glad that with Edward of Wales there sailed away his brother Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. Both young men are competent manipulators of firearms, though not crack shots like King-Emperor George...
...course he was exaggerating. Yet it is certain that hearing defects have been increasing. In England one-third of the population, it is estimated, cannot hear perfectly. Doctors are investigating. One important cause that they blame is city noises. The cacophony injures the auditory nerves, the brain, the whole nervous system...
Final vindication of the Ile de France as a safe ship came, last week, when she was boarded by U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, whose famed nickname is "Nervous Nelly." At the pier, he exhibited a nervous indecision between taking an elevator to the embarking platform or climbing up the stairs. Finally he climbed. Both Secretary & Mrs. Kellogg not only admonished their porters to be careful but kept a watchful eye upon them, lest they jerk off a worn trunk handle or dent a new suitcase. But Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg did board the Ile de France, and settled down...
...When "Nervous Nelly" noted that the passenger's namecard outside his door read "Secretary of State of the United States of America," he rang for the steward, expostulated, had card changed to read "Frank B. Kellogg," even insisted on omission of his rightful prefix...
Other fellow passengers of Secretary Kellogg were: Stockmarketeer W. C. Durant; President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank; Mr. & Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt; Cinemactress Dolores del Rio; Cinema director Edwin Carewe (attended by nurses for his nervous breakdown) ; and one Miss Agnes Boone, "dancing bathing beauty," soi disant descendant of Pioneer Daniel Boone...