Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his campaign he spoke in shirt sleeves and suspenders. When he got into action, with one rip, he tore off his collar and tie and threw them on the ground. "Don't get nervous,' he would shout, "I will remove nothing else whatsoever...
Ismet's diplomacy was utterly successful. The warm and nervous delegates reached an agreement on concessions and the naval problem in a manner satisfactory to the Turks. The Turkish Petroleum Company's claims were dropped from the Protocol, and preferential rights cancelled for the Vickers-Armstrong and French Railway companies. Until ratification of the straight convention, Britain, France and Italy may each keep a cruiser and two destroyers on the Bosphorus; in any event this privilege must end next December...
...first scene everything went well. The soprano does not appear in that scene. Walska appeared, radiantly beautiful, in the second scene. Her voice was thin and nervous. The great aria, caro nome, came, prodigious in its demands upon the strength, purity and agility of the upper soprano voice. Walska's voice faltered badly. At the final top note she emitted a series of faint squeaks and there was silence-no tone came. The audience began to laugh. The fiasco was ghastly. Then, as throughout the rest of the opera, it was evident that Walska's top tones were...
...program of the Scientific Assembly presented an almost complete cross-section of present currents in scientific medicine, organized in 15 sections: practice of medicine; general and abdominal surgery; obstetrics and gynecology; ophthalmology; laryngology, otology, and rhinology; pediatrics; pharmacology and therapeutics; pathology and physiology; stomatology; nervous and mental diseases; dermatology and syphilogy; preventive and industrial medicine and public health; urology; orthopedic surgery; gastroenterology and proctology...
...United States could not run more than twenty million motor cars. For more than that number there would be no money, no gas, no room, and no need. The increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their old cars for a new Ford...