Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamburg-American Line. In 1916, only three years out of Yale, he had decided that "the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the U. S." was shipping. He put to the back of his mind the legacy of railroad activities that his dour, nervous father, Edward Henry Harriman,* left him, that he himself trained in. He took interest in a small shipbuilding plant on the Delaware, enlarged it, built concrete shipways. After the War he operated Shipping Board vessels on commission. Coastwise shipping struck him as a good field. He was right. At present transatlantic...
...stage just five minutes after the curtain went up on the second act. It was a nervous, awkward little run, as if she would start at once with the business of the evening. But for the audience the business of the evening had begun. They would not wait to hear her sing. They clapped and clapped until Marion Talley had to give up being Gilda and bow many times, shy, awkward little bows as if she realized the time was not yet ripe for bowing. A few remembered they had come to hear her sing, hissed for quiet. "Mia Padre...
...third game of the second set of their match at Cannes?a match which has been given as much publicity as the conference of Locarno?had just ended. Miss Wills led, 3-0. Mile. Lenglen had won the first set, 6-3. Both had been, at the beginning, too nervous to play well and too wary to divert with any spectacular activities the people who since eight in the morning had poured into Cannes along the highroad from Nice and Monte Carlo. Helen Wills seemed to be thinking too much. Suzanne Lenglen's nerves were twittering. Regal in pink silks...
Finance Minister Count Volpi entered the Chamber and crossed with quick nervous strides to the Ministerial Bench, where Premier Mussolini awaited him. The Premier shook his hand with vigor. The Deputies rose to their feet and cheered him. From the public galleries as many cives Romani as could squeeze in roared their approval of the Volpi-Churchill Italo-British debt settlement (TIME, Feb. 8, COMMONWEALTH...
...alarmingly shabby individual rushed from the Chambre des Députés, and sought the Quai d'Orsay (Foreign Office) nearby with swift nervous strides. As its portals flashed open before him, he tossed his battered felt hat to a flunkey and bellowed questions and commands in a rich throaty voice. Almost before the Foreign Office secretaries could answer or obey, he had seized his hat again, jammed it down over his thick mane of hair and rushed back to le Chambre. The individual who thus hectically disported himself throughout the week, was, of course, M. Aristide Briand...