Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immigrant? and would-be immigrants who create . . . the essential problem of Ellis Island . . . They all, lady, prostitute, mechanic, rabbi and whatnot are frightened, nervous...
...really is remarkable to see how well the miserable mobs of nervous human beings are maneuvered through the legally necessary examinations and are despatched to their destinations. The officials certainly deserve credit for what they do achieve...
...knockout from the point of view of sales stick on their shelves like fly paper?another which they thought would hardly pay for its binding bound to dazzling success. The publishing of fiction is a tremendous, enthralling gamble?a continual laying of bets as to which way that nervous and feline creature, Popular Taste, is going to jump. And, generally, it jumps the other way. For the average novel hardly recoups its publisher for his initial expenses?if that. Or so they tell the author. But the exceptional novel?Gosh, how the money rolls...
...Angeles gallery, numbering 1,500, and described as " very unruly," was said to have interfered with Alonso's play. Alonso was nervous...
...eulogizing Bacchus. He said that alcohol, if taken in moderation, added to " the pleasure, exhilaration, happiness and gayety of life." For the practical purposes of the bill he said that alcohol was not necessary to youth, as experience showed that it was at the tender ages damaging to the nervous system...