Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style is vivid, almost nervous. The first chapter is the narration of a juryman in a case involving a suit for civil damages by the widow of a famed banker killed by a young lawyer, who used his beautiful wife to further his professional ambitions, only to find that she had been seduced by the famed banker; and who thereupon killed the trespasser and invoked the unwritten law. A note at the end of the chapter states that the facts were for the most part imaginary...
...commenting on this Professor Collins said: "I have found that a man's marks are always higher during the training season than when he is not in training. When a man is competing for an athletic team his nervous system is keyed up, his mind is alert, and his habits are regular, and all this enables him to do his work better. I am a strong advocate of competitive athletics as an aid in maintaining high scholarship ratings...
...Arms. Margaret Lawrence is an amazingly attractive person, possibly a trine plump to be playing a nervous bride but, nevertheless, most agreeable. For her sake, her extensive clientele will enjoy In His Arms. For the rest, it will be simply a comedy that edges comfortably above the average...
Selden states that the hold-up man fired directly at him from a distance of about three feet. He also states that the cartridge was a blank, for no bullet struck him or any part of the building. From this and his nervous actions Selden believes that the man was inexporienced in the hold-up game...
...season on the wallets of new and returning undergraduates. One is stopped on street corners with frantic appeals to subscribe to this and that periodical. Upperclassmen are halted by young and inexperienced canvassers and besought to lend financial support to institutions of which they themselves are officers. Elderly and nervous professors retire quivering within doors to turn out another chapter of The Great American Textbook. Even the President and Fellows take their walks abroad with their coats but toned and their hands on their socks...