Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tendency of our time is toward an increase of nervous irritability, so far as there is disclosed a want of self-control, a lack of poise and mastery, the sacrifice of the more permanent interests and satisfactions to others that are transient and corrupting, we find not only cause for regret but the need of bringing Up reinforcements through the consideration of what is best...
...wide divergence in training methods has not settled the question of superiority: the higher nervous tension of the overtrained athlete seems to wipe out the margin of physical advantage. At all events, neither university can ever look forward with confidence to a certain victory, but each prepares soberly for a friendly bout. Harvard is glad that Oxford is sending her track team to the Stadium, and looks forward to next July. When the sister universities will pit their sons against each other in brotherly contest...
...President announced that there was no prospect of a change in policy. It was suggested that Mr. Kellogg's appointment is but temporary. This suggestion was made largely because of a general impression that Mr. Kellogg is not very able, that he is an indecisive, worrying, nervous little man, a capable lawyer but without much driving force. Mark Sullivan, one of the aldest of political observers, was inclined to discount this impression of the Secretary of State-to-be, declaring that the impression of timidity comes mainly from physical fidgetiness, that no one, saving only the late Boise Penrose...
...migrated to Manhattan. Dr. Leopold Damrosch, his father, was a musician of note, and in Walter's youth, Wagner, Liszt, von Bulow, Ruyer, Rubinstein visited his home. At 14 his father let him appear in his orchestra at the performance of an operetta but Walter was too nervous to life the cymbals. Nevertheless at 23 he became conductor of the N. Y. Symphony Society-at a time when there were only three symphony orchestras in the U. S. -the New York and Boston Symphonies and the N. Y. Philharmonic...
...language, the reference to normally unmentioned matters and certain of the incidents are unsparingly explicit. Some of the acting is good, none of it bad. June Walker, amusing actress of many a jingling farce (Six Cylinder Love, The Nervous Wreck,) poured out tears for the first time before an audience. She doubled her reputation by the searching sadness of her little animal, the heroine...