Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 250,000 bagatelle boards, operated by a nickel-in-the-slot, situated in bars, hotel lobbies, lunchrooms and cigar stores throughout the U. S. Last week, bigwigs of the pin-game industry had the most exciting week they have experienced since, for mysterious reasons connected with Depression, nervous introspection and an appetite for echolalia, the modern brand of bagatelle, played on a glass-enclosed pin-studded board with glass or metal balls, became a national craze...
...only member of it left is young Donald Glourie (Robert Donat). A shy, shiftless, personable young man, he lives alone in Glourie Castle waiting for someone who, by purchasing it, will free him from his creditors. When the purchasers-a U. S. chain-store proprietor (Eugene Pallette), his nervous wife and their pretty daughter (Jean Parker)-appear, Glourie Castle is moved piecemeal to Florida. The ghost goes with it. His penchant for crudely old-fashioned kissing games tends to complicate young Donald Glourie's more romantic experiments, but in other respects his voyage is an unqualified success...
Peculiarly enough, many of the Freshmen with several years of skiing in Switzerland did not show up well. Trails seem to be the bugaboo of many European trained skiers, and not being accustomed to them, they get nervous. It takes a while for them to get on to the ropes of trail running. Later on we'll be hearing more about Freshmen...
Chicago's leading financial editor is dapper, nervous Royal F. (for Freeman) Munger of the Daily News. He writes more for businessmen than for investors and speculators, dishing up an idea per day in a signed feature called "Old Bill Suggests." Once in the 1920's Mr. Munger was put on the carpet for a savage radio attack on real estate bonds, then in high favor with unsophisticated investors. Lately Publisher Frank Knox has been letting out his business section budget, and Editor Munger has expanded, hired a battery of specialists. In his year-end review Editor Munger...
...civilian Premier, nervous Mr. Constantine Demerdjis, grew more alarmed than ever as he read in General Kondylis' newsorgan: "The new Government rests on a basis from which premiers have fallen and kings been overthrown!" Nonetheless George II set his big jawbone. Instead of convening Parliament and challenging it to boot him off the Throne, His Majesty dissolved Parliament without permitting it to meet last week, ordered for Jan. 26 an election. Elections in Greece usually return the government that runs them...