Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social protection, Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed by a crowd of 10,000 which had been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents, some of the men sentenced to death looked "broken," others "nervous," as OGPU police took them to their cells. Were they really going to die? Occidental observers have been suspicious from the first that the trial was supreme propaganda, rehearsed in advance by prosecutor and prisoners, broadcast throughout Russia to convince peasants and proletarians that if the Soviet Government seems...
Reasons for entering the house are given as follows: six men were convalescents from Stillman Infirmary, eight were suffering from depression, 17 from exhaustion, two from homesickness, two from malnutrition, four from nervous breakdown and two from slight illness...
Academicians need not have been surprised at a controversial picture from Charles Dana Gibson. Now bald and 63, he was the Peter Arno of the 1890's. From his nervous, scratchy pen sprang that sensational figure, the Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
Earl Sande, premier U. S. jockey, made his debut as a professional tenor at the Kiwanis Club of Alexandria, Va., sang "Mother Machree" and "Bird Songs at Eventide." Asked after the performance how he had felt, said he: "Well, I was kinda nervous...
...seven years a professional ball player, 34 years an evangelist, 27 years a Presbyterian minister, was nervous last week as he exhorted impromptu in Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, Tabernacle pastor, explained the nervousness as due to Dr. Sunday's "eating nothing of consequence but toast...