Search Details

Word: nervous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Well, when I first stepped into the President's office I was nervous. It looked like it was going to be harder than I had expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Father Burns was pale and nervous now, fidgeting with his grey moustache. Without waiting to be asked, he burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CORRUPTION | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...against me and I'm nervous. Nothing serious?well, just jiminy fits, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Indiana | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...that nearly everyone looked at it once when they came in and a second time when they went out. The first scrutiny was the more satisfactory. Artist Poole had put the actress against a dark background, wrapped her in a black cape, painted her hands brown, thin and nervous. Her face looked out from all this gloom with the terror of a child's half-dream in the dark. Nonetheless, the characterization was too taut and theatrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On View | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

After hunting alligators, but getting none, fishing, but catching none, being reported as on the verge of nervous breakdown, but having none, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went down for a spin in a submarine. Then bidding good-bye to Panama and his vacation, he put on his goggles and returned to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Third Continent | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next