Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which a strictly classic treatment of form encloses a romantic elaboration and decoration of feeling; and "the Passing of Shaughnessy" which fuses the fantasy and conceit of pre-classical phrasing in English poetry, a music that has the sureness of old rhythm and the freedom of new, and a nervous presentation of story conspicuously modern. Last of all, John Marshall in "Poem", curiously classic and free of tradition at once evokes briefly the feeling of dreams fascinating because too tenuous for sharp perception. And after the last, I find lost among the pages of proof given me for review, "Farewell...
...more than 90 per cent of those in the universities seeking and obtaining a vocational training. To these authorities the problem is pressing because the man who comes to the university for a cultural education is not getting exactly what he wants. He is being treated with the same nervous haste as those who are preparing themselves for the nervous industrial world. The man who want a cultural education more or less demands the ease of the club or drawing room. Why, then, should he be rushed with the rest of the dizzy world...
...after Ambassador Harvey retired, Mr. Kellogg became Ambassador to Great Britain. His was, of course, a "lame duck" appointment, and not looked upon with favor in some political quarters. To the same quarters his second elevation is equally unpleasing; political opponents doubted his capacity, referred to him as "too nervous, too worried a little man," and remarked that his Senatorial colleagues used to refer to him humorously as "Nervous Nellie...
...Haunted House" at the New Park. A mystery play by Owen Davis, author of the "Nervous Wreck", and featuring Wallace Eddinger...
...Vitamin. Experiments with the diet of white rats disclosed that on a certain diet they will thrive but will not produce young or, if they have young, will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin...