Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, at five o'clock one tense morning, near the end of a noisy five-hour mass meeting, 350 American Newspaper Guild members from the Hearst Herald & Examiner and American tore up picket signs, canceled a threatened strike, accepted a one-year Guild contract offered by nervous little Herald & Examiner Publisher Emanuel ("Manny") Levi, who also took over the American fortnight ago. The contract provides that no pay cuts or discharges can be made in any department for three months, after that only through arbitration. No editorial salaries can be lowered for one year, but neither can the editorial...
...composers, Edward Alexander MacDowell, died in Manhattan's Westminster Hotel. Known most widely for his piano piece, To a Wild Rose, courtly, affable MacDowell was internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs and instrumental solo pieces. Sensitive and nervous by temperament (a mental breakdown hastened his death at 46), MacDowell loved the country, drew inspiration and titles for his music from nature. Eventually he bought himself a strip of wooded land near Peterboro in southern New Hampshire, where he spent his last years. Before he died he expressed a wish that this...
What goes on behind a waiter's poker face? Many a nervous, exasperated or curious diner has often wondered. Last week a waiter took off his uniform and tried to tell. What he had to say was disappointing. Thirty-year-old Dave Marlowe (real name: Arthur Timmens) has been a ship's steward on British and U. S. liners, a waiter in New York speakeasies and night clubs, has worked in swanky London hotels, in rowdy pubs. But apparently he paid as little attention to the guests as they paid to him. As a ship's steward...
...brought-up college girls who wondered if it was safe for them to pick up strangers on trains, a sheltered boy who was sent to him to learn the facts of life but who turned out to be fully informed, a woman of 42 on the verge of a nervous breakdown; many, many others. Their confidences, together with Dr. Hotep's observations, make up the substance of Love and Happiness. Although readers will recognize that the doctor's wide experience has given him great tolerance, they are likely to be left wondering what else it has given...
...double bed), what furniture and what frame of mind are best suited for setting up housekeeping. Miss Wiley believes that one of the big troubles with marriage is the honeymoon. She draws a terrible picture of bride & groom rushing about getting ready for the wedding, buying things, getting nervous and exhausted and then having to start on a trip. "Where is the ecstasy?" she asks gloomily. "Where the bliss?" She also thinks that no bride should ever be heard saying, "I wish you'd hurry up and make more money...