Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ethiopia (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935, et seq.). A typical Ben Smith achievement was his handling of the J. I. Case Co. stock when it tumbled during the Hoover Depression. He kept selling J. I. Case short until he had made huge gains, sloganizing nervous Wall Street at this time with respect to all stocks: "Sell 'em! Sell 'em! They're not worth anything!" Last week famed "Sell 'em Ben" Smith was close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President...
...first few weeks Hugo Black sat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench, Washington gossip reported Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at a high pitch of exasperation because nervous Justice Black's rocking chair punctuated hearings with a high-pitched squeak, squeak. This week, when the Court convened after a two-week recess, Hugo Black's chair no longer squeaked and it speedily became apparent that harmony had been restored. For Chief Justice Hughes and a majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test...
...Robert Toombs, tousle-haired, unreconstructed, uncompromising old Confederate who refused to take the oath of allegiance and who used to stalk around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when the war ended, who began as a champion of the poor farmers, became a Populist candidate for President, and wound up as a rabble-rouser, an anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, defender of lynching, with a reputation as the "basest, most...
...Hore-Belisha Young Turks" and it was said that Hore-Belisha had given Neville Chamberlain a "48-hour ultimatum." The 48 hours expired, and nothing happened. For a member of the Cabinet to hand the P.M. an ultimatum is something which in London simply isn't done-but nervous Britons were willing to admit that, if it ever is, Hore-Belisha is the sort...
...lover. She had resigned herself to spinsterhood, had published a few verses, when in 1891 she got the commission to write a poem for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition. Opponents wanted to replace her with John Greenleaf Whittier, then 85. Despite illness, an operation, a nervous attack, Harriet Monroe finished her ode in time, demanded and received $1,000 for it, had the satisfaction of hearing it read before an audience of 120,000, its chorus sung by 5,000 voices. Because the New York World published it without permission before the reading, she sued...