Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project of the Senior Committee severs the Gordian knot of hoary inefficiency and greases the wheels of progress. Seniors who have had previous experience in Album management will be able to accomplish their task with less trouble and nervous palpitations. The student Council deserves credit for its timely action...
Skin tests failed to reveal any specific allergy. A Washington doctor cut out the adolescent's tonsils, with no effect on the sneezing. Other specialists could find nothing unusual in her lungs or nervous system...
Last week it was belatedly discovered that Mr. Meehan, far from recovering after his preliminary bout with SEC, had been confined since last August to Bloomingdale Hospital, a sanatorium near Manhattan for the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. On the application of his wife and the advice of two alienists, the 42-year-old broker had been committed by New York Supreme Court Justice William F. Bleakley just before that jurist accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York...
From the genial, generous person they had known, Mr. Meehan changed into a tense, excitable nervous case. A marked increase in drinking was noted, and a tendency to rambling talk. Distressed by the fact that Mr. Meehan's condition had become front-page news, one of his partners made haste last week to stop further speculation, declaring: "M. J. Meehan is ... not under restraint. He has been sick about a year and has given no attention to business during this period. His condition is a matter of concern to his family and friends but we are confident . . . that...
...outspoken he often exasperated Napoleon, Caulaincourt had opposed the war with Russia, refused to flatter his Emperor, so that, although the Corsican tormented his General, Napoleon also had a nervous desire for his praise and a respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on the night of his attempted suicide he poured out his story to Caulaincourt alone while the sweat broke out on his sunken features and he waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place...