Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate; for the Church, Bishop Diaz has been the obstreperous protagonist. President Calles has been sending Secretary Kellogg temporizing notes; Bishop Diaz he threw out of Mexico. In the U. S. Bishop Diaz will wait until Mexican Catholics can organize an effective political party and throw out President Calles...
...Leipzig, Dr. Nebert and Dr. Koch reported that they had gone from stable to stable, playing music to the cows and goats. The beasts so entertained produced more milk than usual, for milk yielding is a nervous reaction. The curious doctors then tried music on wet nurses, hired for suckling. But music had no effect on the wet nurses. They secreted a definite amount of milk, and no more. It is possible, however, that music may have a practical effect upon women who are especially susceptible...
...Hillis suffered a nervous breakdown, which forced him to end his 25-year pastorate. Since then he has been pastor emeritus...
...have wondered for a long time what was wrong with the Gov'ment. Woodrow's set smile made me very nervous. Cool Cal's expression of smelling Limberger cheese has worried me to the point of despair, but this picture of Brother Wayne Bidwell Wheeler [Attorney for the Anti-Saloon League-TIME, Jan. 10] has caused me to wish that I could consult an honest and fairly reliable Bootlegger. . . . ROBERT W. HAWKINS...
...sounds as ominously suggestive of the passing of time as the regular tramp of feet. Guilty men hear in it the approaching minions of the law and in their terror rush to confess. The imaginative are reminded of tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative, and are even inclined...