Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even with a Metropolitan contract, Flagstad was loath to leave Norway. She had married Henry Johansen, a wealthy lumber merchant. The Christmas holiday season was on. She liked to ski and she dreaded new audiences. But if she was nervous before her debut, no one at the Metropolitan observed any sign of it. She knitted placidly before she went on stage, knitted between scenes. No high-strung person could have endured the ten weeks which followed. She had sung Elsa (Lohengrin) only in Norwegian, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) only in Swedish. Now she had to relearn both in German...
...week that the Democratic Party assembled in Chicago to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was the worst Depression week in Chicago banking. Nervous depositors swarmed into even the biggest Loop banks, demanded their money. Runs hit good banks and bad alike. That was the week that Charles Gates Dawes negotiated his notorious $90,000,000 RFC loan for his now defunct Central Republic. Long queues in the main banking rooms of First National were not dispersed until President Melvin Alvah Traylor addressed the crowd, explaining that he had enough cash for each & every depositor, that First National had weathered...
...before the wedding newshawks found Bridegroom Davies at Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza, discovered that he had given his fiancee a diamond described as big as a 50-cent piece, reported him "extremely nervous." All arrangements for the ceremony and reception in Mrs. Hutton's huge private-elevator penthouse at No. 2 East 92nd St. were in Mrs. Hutton's capable hands. Few days before Mrs. Hutton managed to squeeze in the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Marjorie Post Hutton Free Food Station from which derives her tabloid title of "Lady Bountiful of Hell...
Last July the British cruiser Suffolk was warped to a berth in Portsmouth harbor. While nervous Chinese gentlemen hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the Nanking Government, were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy...
...leader in a movement ... of return to domesticity and the felicities of family life." Rousseau was the first great teacher to see the beauty in mountains and wild landscapes that previous ages had considered only horrible or terrifying. The man who has exercised this tremendous influence was nervous, sentimental, irresponsible, ill. Finding Rousseau's Confessions unreliable, Ellis gains more enlightenment from the 20 volumes of his correspondence, discovers the secret of his genius in the "swiftness and sincerity" of his actions and reactions. Rousseau was like "an exquisite instrument, giving forth a music which responds to the varying emotions...