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Word: nervous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NERVOUS WRECK-The inspiriting effect of a flivver and of faith on a neurasthenic youth who goes, for farcical purposes, to the wide open spaces of the flannel shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comedy | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...NERVOUS WRECK?East in the person of an anemic hypochondriac meets West in the persons of sheriffs, guns and a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Luminal, developed in Germany during the last ten years, belongs to the same chemical group of drugs as chloral and veronal. Hitherto it has been regarded only as a sedative, a depressant of the nervous system, injected through the mouth or veins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epileptic Cure? | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...Senate Committee on Public Lands ordered three Washington physicians to examine Mr. Fall to find out whether he was too ill to testify. The physicians declared he was suffering from "severe nervous strain" but in their opinion was "in condition to appear before the Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politification | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

...NERVOUS WRECK?Explosive farce, movie style, completely innocent of the double entendre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 11, 1924 | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

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