Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capitalist. The one remarkable man on the new Board is the governor appointed to the four-year term and designated by the President as chairman. At 45 Marriner Stoddard Eccles is lean, smallish, nervous, intense. In manner he is pleasant, impersonal. Like many another New Dealer he is convinced that in money management lies the salvation of Capitalism...
...moral cramp. Rejected again, Oliver returns to the front, is killed. The book ends as Mario visits Rose to tell her of Oliver's last provisions for her, is pained at her disinterest in Oliver's wishes and Oliver's will, perplexed and uncomprehending at her nervous manner with himself...
...most unfortunate setbacks had been suffered by outstanding journalists assigned to the North Front. Swizzling in Cairo recently and proclaiming, "I'm having a nervous breakdown!" famed Floyd Gibbons was all but unrecognizable when last photographed (see cut) except for his trademark, the patch across one blind eye. Others were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European...
...engineers, and wealthy young Frank C. Hart, head of Hartol Products Corp., were making business trips. Young Charles Altschul, nephew of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, amused himself by experimenting with his new candid camera. Mrs. Samuel Horovitz of Boston, who had never flown before, was nervous at first, but soon relaxed, sat quietly talking to her mother-in-law, watching her curly-haired son play in the aisle. To other passengers she said: "Isn't he happy! He's 5 years old today...
...questions range from intimate studies of the attitude of the student towards the opposite sex to his ideas on religion. Such questions as "Are you nervous when alone with a group of women?"; "How often do you go out with girls?"; "What studies do you like best?"; "Has your choice of an occupation when you leave college changed from what it was originally?" and "Do you believe in the necessity of religion...