Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington No. 2, At 54, President Benes is a small, nervous, mouselike man, with cool eyes, hair thinning and greying at the sides, a mouth that seldom smiles. Czechoslovakia's No. 2 Washington was born on May 28, 1884, at Koslany. near Pilsen, in Bohemia, where his father scraped a living as a peasant truck farmer. As the youngest, most gifted of the family of ten, Eduard was sent to high school, then the University of Prague. There he became a national figure, not in politics, but as the flashy forward for the "Slavia" soccer team...
...Hankow last week, nervous Government officials, believing the city's fall a matter of weeks, packed their families off to remote cities in southwestern China, started shipping Government archives and nonessential equipment to Chungking, officially the seat of the Government. Kweiyang, in Kweichow Province, and Yiin-nanfu, capital of Yunnan, only 400 miles from the Tibetan frontier...
Among the 243 architects were two young Manhattan strugglers who entered the competition late, gave up hope of winning it early. One was big, placid, 31-year-old Richard Marsh Bennett. A month before the competition closed he teamed up with an old friend, short, nervous, 33-year-old Caleb Hornbostel, son of a celebrated Pittsburgh architect, Henry Hornbostel, designer of the Hell Gate Bridge. Physically unlike as partners in a musical comedy team, Hornbostel and Bennett nevertheless had much in common. They studied at the Beaux Arts together, returned to the U. S. at the low point...
Died. Captain George W. Yardley, 58, master of the Dollar liner President Hoover; of complications from exposure and nervous strain in the six grim days of rescue and salvage after the President Hoover ran hard aground 18 miles off Formosa last December; in San Francisco...
...drab and distressing life, makes prostitution attractive to nobody. Its author seems intelligent, unsentimental but strangely apathetic, gives the impression that she could have escaped her environment but stayed in it because she suspected that possible alternatives would be equally bad. Her mother was a screaming, hard-drinking nervous case, her father a whining incompetent...