Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prices up and business activity mounting by threatened rather than actual inflation. Finally M. Bonnet agreed to postponement of monetary stabilization while the Conference tackled other matters. Perspiring Mr. Cox swung open the committee room door, broke the good news to Scot MacDonald who broke off his nervous pacing, shook hands all around...
...Senate. Excited Italian socialites, squeezed like sardines into the Senate galleries, pointed knowingly to the Diplomatic Box. In the front row all smiles sat British Ambassador Sir Ronald Graham, French Ambassador Henry de Jouvenel and German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell-these three ready to squiggle. Just behind them, nervous as squirrels, perched the diplomats of the "Little Entente" (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) and Poland. They understood from France, their great ally, that she had gouged out of the Pact all possibility that it may lead to revision of their frontiers or rearmament of their neighbors (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria...
...Nervous. Iowa's cows and chickens were blase about ordinary airplanes. They had seen three other Register and Tribune monoplanes weave a zig-zag pattern in the Hawkeye skies. But they were vaguely uneasy about the flying windmill that landed like a monstrous rooster hopping down from a fence post...
Frankfurter. It was good Republican Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft, who first took Felix Frankfurter to Washington. As a U. S. attorney Lawyer Stimson had been vastly impressed with his ruddy, nervous little assistant who still had an accent when he came to him shortly after graduation from the Harvard Law School in 1906. Felix Frankfurter stayed long enough in Washington to gain the respect of President Wilson (who called him from Harvard in 1918 to head the War Labor Policies Board) and, more important, the lasting friendship of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano...
...Horatio Bottomley. He was worth a regiment of recruiting sergeants in the early days of the War. He breakfasted with David Lloyd George regularly at Downing Street, reviewed the Grand Fleet from Admiral Lord Beatty's flagship, earned the title of Britain's Unofficial Prime Minister. Nervous over the introduction of conscription, the Asquith Cabinet demanded just one thing: the support of Horatio Bottomley...