Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Stalin's NKVD. When rich Mr. Davies liked a picture in a State store so well that he paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked down on the Ukranian State shop. It promptly disgorged 4,200 rubles and this "refund" NKVD agents beamingly carried to Capitalist Davies in his private...
That isn't so bad. But if any young thing wanders into the inner depths of the magazine, where they continue the stories, she finds the answer to the squirmer's prayer--something with a "Y-front," presumably for Yale men, which protects squirmers from becoming "nervous nonentities" and "makes sitting a joy." Soon comes Mr. 1937 stepping out in "the new order of the day in next-to-body wear for men," which for a nominal fee gives you "a flat midriff and a military swing...
Tituba, a Negro servant (Madame Sul-Te-Wan), gets the Massachusetts housewives thinking about witches when she tells of devil dances she has witnessed in the jungle. Her tales excite a nervous child, Ann (Bonita Granville). who is punished for having a stolen book on witches. Ann gets even with Tituba by pretending to be bewitched. Then Ann's mother testifies that Tituba bewitched her too. Soon the folk begin to find the charge of witchcraft handy for paying off grudges. Once roaring on its way, the hysteria veers round to Barbara when she temerously defends an accused person...
...valid records of available experience. Mr. Gibson "Death in the House" gives with observant pathos a boy's emotions when his brother is dangerously ill with typhoid. Mr. Symonds contributes a pleasant piece of domestic shock in a brief reminiscence of a disturbing grandfather. Mr. Rowley begins a nervous tale of urban frustration in the idiom of Josephine Herbst...
...that time old Senator Sharon was dead of worry, and Terry was a lonely widower. The lawyer soon married his beauteous client. They made a formidable pair. During her divorce suit she had made everybody nervous by fingering a pearl-handled revolver in her handbag while a court examiner was hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front...