Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parallel? To nervous Europeans behind their taut frontiers, last week's events seemed as world-shaking as those of the fateful summer of 1914. No ordinary diligence caused Premier Edouard Daladier to call a meeting of the French Council of National Defense on Easter Sunday. Nor did any ordinary crisis cause Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to break a well-earned fishing holiday in Aberdeenshire to hurry back to London and summon for the first time since the World War a full Cabinet session for Easter Monday. Parliament was also convened in special session...
...children are treated harshly by their parents, they may become tense and nervous, clench their jaws, grind their teeth. Such habits may cause dental trouble. Often children who are lonely or unwanted have an insatiable craving for sweets, "as if they were trying to make up for the absence of sweetness in their lives...
...Lucretia and Tarquinius (see cut), lent indefinitely by one of Paris' apprehensive art collectors. One of the few first-rate Tintorettos to be seen outside Europe, the picture interested students for its Michelangelesque distortions (as in Tarquinius' leg), its hint of El Greco pattern in the nervous, lightning-like highlights on the strewn drapery, and such tricky details as the falling cushion and pearls, one of which is caught symbolically in Lucretia's shift...
Died. Douglas D. H. March, 52, Curator of the Old Panama Zoo; from the bite of the deadly fer-de-lance snake; in Panama City. Veteran snake-man, Curator March had extracted venom from some 35,000 snakes, had been bitten 17 times. In 1930, forced by nervous neighbors to move his snake farm from his Haddon Heights, N. J. home, Herpetologist March left the U. S., established the Old Panama...
...thing that did it was a short return engagement of their beloved onetime musical director, Leopold Stokowski. First storm-signals flew when word leaked out that Conductor Ormandy had fired fuzzy-headed first cellist, Isadore Gusikoff, because Gusikoff "made him nervous." Cellist Gusikoff promptly sued for the rest of his season's pay, proudly admitted that he had conducted a "silence strike" while sitting in the orchestra, accused Conductor...