Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Anthony Eden continued his rest cure in the country last week, his Parliamentary Undersecretary Lord Cranborne added to Britain's nervous tension by confirming reports in the House of Commons that the island of Helgoland, Germany's famed pre-War fortress in the North Sea, was being secretly fortified by the Nazi Government...
Acting Postmaster General for August, September and October will be First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes, a rotund, nervous man who bounces when he walks, smokes cigarets continuously and is South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born...
Although supplementary estimates for Britain's great rearmament scramble were issued only a few weeks ago, sensational further supplementary estimates were issued last week. These rocketed the 1936 rearmament bill to $940,000,000 with a further "rearmament loan" in prospect. To questions by nervous M. P.'s as to how quickly the Navy can act, Sir Samuel replied that very shortly the Admiralty will be able to announce that more than half its capital ships are being kept ready for immediate action...
...below their 1934 and 1935 position of runner-up to the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees on July 4 were ten full games ahead of them and, to all appearances, pennant winners. The Detroit Tigers, handicapped by the illness of their catcher-manager. Mickey Cochrane. who had a nervous breakdown when his team failed to hit its stride at the season's start, were a bare percentage fraction ahead of the Washington Senators...
...retiring President Agnes Samuelson of Iowa picked up her gavel, banged it unceremoniously, keynoted: "Democracy must preserve education if education is to preserve democracy!" From that moment broad-beamed President Samuelson had to pound her gavel incessantly, finally smashed it, as the NEA party turned into a loud, nervous assault on the Association's two prime whipping boys...