Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ominous Ludendorff. Certain Paul Reveres in automobiles sent out by Hitler have been captured and have admitted, under third degree tactics, that invasion of Prussia is imminent. The announcement that the Hitler Guards were to turn out for "field manoeuvres" yesterday seems to have given Herr Severing his extraordinary nervous chill...
...only one point of agreement--that financially the school system is under-fed. The majority agree with the Carnegie Institute in condemning the present school menu as too rich and varied. What the children of the nation need is hard, simple fare. This is doctrine which will soon have nervous prostration from overwork. When so many are now condemning the schools for teaching frills instead of ramming home the R's with a poker, it is well to pause and wonder where the individual child comes...
...very nearly as distinct as that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table." Otherwise at the Algonquin: The Rascoes, Hazel and Burton-Burton, a nervous, slender figure, vigorously collecting gossip for his column in the Sunday Tribune; Carl Van Vechten, imposing, with white hair and youthful face, bitter with his tongue, clever with the somewhat too facile pen which gave to his Peter Whiffle more charm than power or plan, is here, and with...
Perhaps this is sometimes unfortunate, for toward the last Lane wrote at times in a tenor of depression, at times under a great nervous strain in a tenor of lightness bordering on hysteria. Here the reader will feel that he is not with the Lane whom he has followed for the years of his public life...
...Biological Club will meet this afternoon in the Zoological Laboratory, Room 46 at 4.45 o'clock. Mr. Raoul M. May will discuss "Recent Investigations on Pathogenic Amoebae". Mr. May is a graduate of Leland Stanford University, now at the University doing research work on the nervous system under Professor G. H. Parker '87 of the Zoological Department...