Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aplomb never leaves Squire Baldwin, but Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was visibly nervous as he denied that Britain had put pressure on the radical French Cabinet to force them to propose the Neutrality Agreement barring arms shipments to Spain. "I wouldn't believe Eden on a stack of Bibles!" bawled Communist William Gallacher, M. P., and then savagely attacked Adolf Hitler's new Ambassador to Britain, onetime Champagne Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week arrived at his post in a Nazi brown shirt. "He comes with his hands red with murder!" shrieked Red William. "I demand that...
...Simpson was a picture of "queenly composure" to Hearst Correspondent Thomas Watson. The New York Herald Tribune's Jack Beall emphasized her "spasms of coughing." The New York Times's, W. F. Leysmith cabled: "Frequently her tongue moved rapidly in nervous movements from cheek to cheek. She looked to one seeing her for the first time like a middle-aged woman of the upper classes. She has a wen on the right side of her chin. She told a most ordinary story...
...Sometimes when we go to concerts to hear other pianists -and great ones, too she gets nervous at the mistakes they make, and says to me 'Oh, daddy, what would you say to me if I played like that?' ' Father Slenczynski. who was shell-shocked during the War. has done much to make his talented young daughter seem horridly precocious. Like a Svengali he dictates her routine, eyes her sharply from the wings whenever she plays in concerts...
...symptoms were rather different, but in both cases they were connected with the highest parts of the central nervous system. Margaria suffered from headache for the rest of the day, and Haldane was affected in the same way; my own symptoms were no less definite, but were those of mental fatigue. The mental symptom lasted about two days...
Long before the race started last week, time trials had made it apparent that U. S. drivers would be outclassed. Fastest qualifying time was made by nervous little Roman-nosed Tazio Nuvolari, who has won 87 out of the 153 races he has entered and is currently considered Europe's best driver. In a bright red Alfa-Romeo, wearing a white helmet, yellow sweater and blue denim pants, Nuvolari took the lead on the first lap. Close behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack...