Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern front came a succession of contradictory stories which slowly boiled down to a composite rumor that the Italian advance had been completely halted, that Gorrahei, largest town captured by the Italians on their recent drive, had been abandoned by Italian colonial troops, but not yet reoccupied by nervous Ethiopians. Italian headquarters still insisted that they were using Gorrahei's airport, a field some distance from the town. ¶ Mystery man of the week was H. H. Mohammed Yayou, Sultan of Aussa, a plains district between the Danakil Desert and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway. Certain it was that...
...Lordship ventured, "It is apparently an American publication." Subject of the trial was a libel suit against Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy in one of these nervous moments exclaimed to Manhattan Lawyer William Ormonde Thompson, onetime partner...
...beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised by makeup, got out of the hospital and lay down again in front of nervous Tarzan. Guards with rifles were on hand in case Tarzan, excited by the smell of half-healed wounds, should misbehave again. This time he only sniffed courageous Bickford, played the scene obediently. Bickford played two more scenes necessary to finish the picture, was too sick to take a scheduled part with Shirley Temple...
...master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon. Less ambitious, Marx merely studied Russian, Serbian, Slavic. In one period when he could not work, the scholar read for recreation two volumes on physiology, Kolliker's Histology, Spurzheim's The Anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System, Schwann & Schleiden's On Cell Matter...
...become nervous. If things have gone wrong, do not inform the patient, his family or friends that an error has been committed. It is not necessary to misrepresent the condition, but it is easy to evade direct replies until you can determine the end results...