Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that you were suffering from a nervous strain so that you hardly knew what you were doing...
Although he was obviously tired and nervous after the four day's grilling, Mr. Gill was definitely on the aggressive. He charged, "Hurley spent three months on this report. He submitted it to the governor and left town. He hit and ran." He styled the activities of James W. Nawn, treasurer at Norfolk, and assistant to Hurley, as "nothing less than treason." He produced evidence that under the present Norfolk administration, two men hired last week have already been discharged for drunkenness. He cracked down on the Herald by stating, "The papers said there was a riot in December. There...
...little attention, the delegates applauded Professor Hudson, chatted volubly, slowly left the hall to the mercies of volunteer Radcliffe damsels who removed the fifty-four timid, gay little flags which had marked the national contingents. Delegates had given respectful attention to Dr. Harold Tobin, Dartmouth League Critic, slight, dark, nervous, and bespectacled, who clung desperately to the back of his chair, swayed from side to side, and assured the league that its critics, charging it with futility, were wrong, to be ignored. Dr. Tobin further delivered an outspoken if almost inaudible attack on Secretary Wallace, saying that the secretary desires...
...dogs, to discover the cause of and remedy for such failures in resuscitation. They have found, reported Dr. Royd Ray Sayer of the U. S. P. H. S., that both carbon monoxide poisoning and lack of oxygen not only stop respiration but also injure brain cells and the central nervous system. Insufficient, therefore, is ordinary oxygen resuscitation. Victims must also have pressure on their brains eased by catharsis, spine punctures or bleeding. Roundly Dr. Sayer condemned the use of blood transfusions which, said he, by increasing brain pressure only makes matters worse...
Victims: 1) A young lady whose three weeks in Paris have made her forget how to speak English. 2) A woman too intelligent not to know she is being made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity...