Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tall, spare, with wiry hands and, one might almost say, wiry features, William Beebe gives an impression of great nervous vitality and never ceasing vigor. He is direct, quick-thinking, and if his manner appears at times to be fussy, it is doubtless only the manifestation of an excess of energy, and of a consciousness, which he cannot well escape, that he is a good organizer-a thing any man must be to create expeditions for exploration purposes, and not only to create them but to carry them through...
...Pierson Worrall Banning of Los Angeles had been awarded ?2,500 as the Major Award of the Benjamin Franklin Fund for a book on Mental and Spiritual Healing. The announcement also said that Charles P. Steinmetz got the second award of ?1,000 for a privately published treatise The Nervous System as a Conductor of Electrical Energy and that a minor award had gone to a Japanese living in Tokyo. It was said that Banning's book had been submitted for the award by "Dr. Franklin C. Wells, Medical Director of the Equitable Life Insurance...
...latest of these nervous persons who view with alarm is Vice President Frederick L. Hoffman of the Babson Institute, who should know better. Speaking in Ford Hall Sunday evening Mr. Hoffman made the hair rise on the heads of his listeners by informing them that whereas the murder rate had formerly been only seventy-two out of every million, it was now nearly eighty. The number of corpses, he darkly insinuated would, if place end to end, extend for nearly twenty miles; and in ten years, if business is good, the line would stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...
...chuckles at the scene conjured up of Ethel Barrymore making her "nervous, half-choked first appearance," and a kindly voice from the gallery calling down: "Speak up, Ethel, you're all right. The Drews is all good actors...
...NERVOUS WRECK?A surprisingly amusing application of the homeopathic treatment to strengthen a young man's nerve by smashing crockery all around...