Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nervous...
...Among the reports I have read so far, the general scholastic bug bear for Freshmen seems to be the History, I course. The advisors almost unanimously state that their proteges are nervous about the unfamiliar nature of the history work...
...oriental. Quite often now, behind the big yellow windows of his ballroom, saxophones giggled and clucked all night and limousines drove away in the early morning with the blinds pulled down. Odd callers were always waiting in his library, men of dignity who had suddenly become nervous, and gutter-rats dressed up like men of dignity...
...school for air pilots. Great sport was had by Farmer Glatt and family, at first, watching. Then tyro pilots took to "zooming" (swooping low at) the Glatt house, barn, barnyard, cows, chickens. Farmer Glatt's hens laid few eggs. Baby chicks died of fright. Glatt cows grew nervous, Glatt horses shied, Glatt hogs grunted...
...Henry Stetson, mother of two debutante daughters, had no golfing style, but merely an impertinent putter. Mrs. Wright Goss, ten years ago the "perfect girl" of Vassar, had exuberant drives, but a nervous, jabbing putter. Mrs. Stetson defeated Mrs. Goss at the Merion Cricket Club, thereby winning the woman's national golf championship. Glenna Collett, the defending champion, had previously been eliminated...