Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come again upon feminish and its allied evil, industrialian. The general participation of women and the economic struggle has as a wide-spread emotional discouraging of the female organism, a common predisposition to hysteria and nervous explosiveness. The restlessness of women, their baneful pushing into activities for which they are biologically not suited, and the resultant rise in the numbers of congenital defectives, are all fruits of this tree...
...must be out of his mind!" These were the words of a bony, nervous lady who had just listened to the first part of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps as played in Philadelphia last week by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux. Having so spoken, the bony lady left the auditorium as did many another ignorant Philadelphia music listener. Those who kept their seats applauded with vigor. When all who wanted to leave had done so, Mr. Monteux continued his conducting...
...each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when he has organized a picnic, but dashed to nervous gloom when it disintegrates to eggshells and a mackintoshed wife. There is the inevitable pair of spinsters, who paint wretched watercolors, and quarrel over Hedonism. There are plenty of charming young girls, and no eligible young men. Finally there is Sydney Warren, a lovely girl of 22, sophisticated, neurotic...
...story is that Terry no longer holds his university post because of his soft-heartedness. In 1919 it was discovered that he was not only disclosing to nervous undergraduates the results of examinations before the sacred date for the publication of marks, but also, on occasion, raising the marks from failure to passing. One Harvard man assures us that Terry saved more students from flunking out than any professor or tutor in the university. The New Yorker...
...turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against...