Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albert coats and high hat, not to mention a host of foreign press correspondents and motion picture men. Meanwhile the Allied Powers, having spent sleepless nights on account of the rumors of the impending return of the ex-Crown Prince to his Fatherland, were thrown into a state of nervous prostration by the rumor that the ex-Kaiser had received his passports and was on the point of leaving his Doorn home, with the intention of restoring the monarchy...
...towering painted mountains her appearance was startlingly unusual. A slight woman, her hair white, without a speck of make-up to conceal the wrinkles. Her clothes strangely simple. Her movements decisive, restrained and yet assured. Her hands, once the toast of all Europe, still stirring with their nervous eloquence. Her voice small, curiously musical...
...Frank Kellogg, 66 years old, " frail in figure and nervous in demeanor," was Senator from Minnesota for the term 1917-1923. Last Spring he retired involuntarily, having been defeated for reelection by Hendrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite. He became a lame duck by a margin of more than 80,000 votes...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Reviewed in this issue...
...Nervous Wreck. There are those who have doubted seriously, in print, that Playwright Owen Davis is an artist; yet they cannot deny his versatility. Last year he won the Pulitzer Prize with his gloomy, bitter Icebound. He has now delivered himself of the most supremely silly, the most thunderously amusing of farces. Otto Kruger, the hero, steps immediately into the front rank of our funniest farceurs...