Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million five hundred thousand people (42% of the 6,000,000 sick every day) suffer from chronic diseases-heart disease, hardening of the arteries, rheumatism, nervous diseases...
Caesar himself has been transformed from Mussolini into Hitler, complete with hair hanging in his face and nervous uneasiness. Possibly the reason for preferring the Teuton to the Latin is that in the play so much is made of the dictator's bodily infirmities, all of which applies much better to Der Fuhrer than to the robust Italian. Lawrence Fietcher in the title role does his relatively small job with all the proper arrogance...
...nervous looking person ventured into the Yenching Institute Friday and approached the least busy of the Oriental occupants he could find...
...Another British bishop believed by his flock to be blaming himself into something like nervous prostration over Windsor last week, was the Rt. Rev. A. W. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, England. It was he who preached the first Anglican sermon critical of King Edward VIII. This British newsorgans used as their excuse for abandoning their conspiracy of silence about Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et seq.). According to friends of Dr. Blunt last week "his nerves have been badly shaken"; he recently took to his bed when scheduled to be presented to King George & Queen Elizabeth; and this week...
...lived until shortly before Hitler came into power. A good cook who does her own housework, Miriam Beard spent eight years accumulating the amazing mass of facts for A History of the Business Man, had to be goaded into finishing the book by her energetic mother, almost had a nervous breakdown before she completed it. The result is a volume that businessmen could value as a lucid, informative study of their pioneering ancestors. The dimensions of the book are extraordinary. The 28 chapters are subdivided into 209 sections, covering commercial cities from Carthage to Chicago, war makers from Crassus...