Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruening closed this year's Godkin lectures with what many people believed to be a warning for America, telling them to "beware of that nervous feeling that is growing in the world...
...Russians a fearful pounding, drove the shattered remnants of the fleet back to Port Arthur, where he potted them at long distance one by one, "like beasts in a pit." Meanwhile the Russian Baltic Fleet was under way, coming all the long way round the Cape of Good Hope. Nervous about Japanese torpedo-boats before they passed
David Frankfurter, a nervous, hollow-eyed young Jew born in Yugoslavia, took the train from Berne last week to the Swiss winter sports resort of Davos. He did not go there to ski, and, though Davos boasts a fine meteorological observatory, he was not interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm...
...classes the professor brooks no coughing, shuffling or other disturbance. At the first noise he will call time out for students "with no nervous control" to cough, sneeze, sniffle, blow noses or leave the room. Afternoons he delights in tramping through the stacks of Widener Library, knocking off all feet which he finds on desks...
...their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered and made to listen to the spoutings of W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, might fall asleep or get angry, but they would not understand more than a line or so in a dozen. Many a present-day poet along with many a poetaster and poeticule, follows...