Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minorities. In the Council a heated argument took place between tall, gaunt Count Albert Apponyi of Hungary and nervous, excitable Nicolas Titulescu of Rumania. The treatment of Hungarian minorities in Rumania has long been a subject of severe dispute. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, attempted to lay down three guiding principles for the treatment of former Hungarians now in Ru- mania by virtue of the peace treaty...
...Angeles critics, reviewing a local art show, cast disdainful glances at an exhibit by Mr. Smith's wife, later tapped out on their typewriters with long, nervous fingers the snippy opinion that it was "distinctly of the old school." On reading this, Mr. Smith saw red, turned radical with a vengeance. He daubed upon a canvas the weirdest monstrosity conceivable to his infuriated imagination. It showed a crazily proportioned South Sea Island female, mouth crammed to oozing with banana, holding aloft a half-devoured piece of the fruit. In the background gaped a skull. Having splotched every color...
Four ocean liners wheeled from their courses to comb the estimated spot where Old Glory radioed distress. It was a foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...
Dikran Kuyumjian ("Michael Arlen"), novelist, was reported ill, despondent, trying to gather strength in Switzerland for an operation, his second within two years, which was "expected to diminish his nervous vitality...
...nurses who had received diplomas from Bellevue. The oldest nurse at Bellevue had been in the class of 1876. She, a crisp, erect old lady, eyed the book for the name of Cora Carpenter. As she rustled pages, turning her mind to a time when she, a little nervous, very serious, had stood up to receive her diploma, she said slowly, "Cora Carpenter? I don't remember any Cora Carpenter, but there may have been a girl of that name in the class ahead of me." At last, Cora Carpenter was found, scribbled over the top of a loose...