Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restless track of the explorer has gone on beyond the ranges and has sought the dim horizon until West has merged with East and the vast wildernesses of the world have been travelled and chartered to man's satisfaction. The driving, nervous days of discovery are over--almost, but not quite, for the old spirit of exploration will not die until the last map is fully marked and the last continent travelled...
...fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times of bad Eliphalet. His novel is too neat in pattern, too nervous in action, to find a place in the three-masted, damn-your-eyes tradition of sea-fiction which Captain Marryat, Cooper, Melville and, later, R. L. Stevenson adorned; but it affects, with latter-day sprightliness, the manner of that tradition. It is meritorious for being a good story...
Died. Judge Charles L. McKeehan, 49, of the U. S. District Court, onetime member of the law firm of Roberts, Montgomery & MeKeehan, of which Owen J. Roberts is the senior partner; in Philadelphia, of bronchitis, accompanied by a nervous breakdown...
With the "Amen," Mr. Dawes faced the chamber and began. It was obvious that he was a bit nervous. His voice was pitched high, was almost shrill. As he warmed to his speech (see Page 5) he spoke more rapidly. He pointed an accusing forefinger at the Senators grouped on the Republican side of the Chamber. He paced up and down and gesticulated fiercely. As his remarks became more pointed, a slight flush, as if of embarrassment, appeared on the face of the President. Secretary Hughes grinned. Chief Justice Taft looked puzzled. The Cabinet and Supreme Court appeared amused...
...both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills his philosophy by helping them to untangle the kinks in their jarring nervous systems...