Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rupert Hughes, short, stocky, quick in his movements, almost jumpy, has an unusual store of nervous energy and mental vitality. His life has been a succession of quick successes; but these have been backed by tremendous effort. After his regular college course at Western Reserve University he took an M.A. degree at Yale, There are dozens of successful novels to his credit and at least a half-dozen plays, among them the markedly successful Excuse Me. He has an extraordinary memory for facts and to talk with him is almost like talking to an articulate and well-colored encyclopedia...
...trade-name of Ford or not. Of course, the Ford has long been recognized as a test of character. The inventor of the Northwestern machine divides humanity into four classes: 1) the man who knows it all, 2) the man who asks advice when anything goes wrong, 3) the nervous individual who is easily rattled, 4) the steady and hardworking soul. But all four classes drive the Ford...
Announcements were made from Copenhagen and Washington of remarkable improvement in cases of general paresis (a degenerative disease of the brain, usually fatal, and caused by syphilis in the central nervous system) by the introduction of Plasmodium vivax, the germ of tertian malaria. Authorities in a Danish insane asylum have been experimenting with the method for five years and claim to have obtained absolute cures...
...attitude toward the war was the sanest, and her Kings, Queens and Pawns is a magnificent piece of reporting. Her work for the Department of Justice was secret, brave and successful. It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...