Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London could the slightest confirmation be obtained, though in Mayfair some swank wits opined: "The reason Baldwin called our election so suddenly was that he was afraid the trouble with Italy might not last much longer." This frivolous view Italians could not take. From the King down they were nervous, anxious and resentful of Britain's jam-packing the Mediterranean with warships neither authorized nor requested by the League (TIME, Sept. 30). With patriotism boiling, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of Italy's "Liberator" and for years a prominent antiFascist, abruptly said in Manhattan last week that...
...doubt of their value!" swore Defendant Farault last week. "Ah, no! I never had any river pebbles in my hands!" Why did 75-year-old retired General Joseph Bardi de Fourtou lend his name as "front" to one of the Stavisky companies? On the stand last week the nervous old General protested his innocence to the point of dragging in, apparently without a scrap of pertinence, French Premier Pierre Laval. "I had complete confidence in Stavisky because so many important persons were mentioned...
...Physiologists, especially those interested in the nervous system," read Dr. Henderson's proxy, "understand fully that posture, particularly the ability to stand erect, or to hold up one's head, is dependent upon tonus. It is not, however, sufficiently emphasized, or even generally realized, that when a patient is too weak to stand or even to hold up his head, his condition is generally one of extremely low tonus...
Left. By Colonel Henry Huddleston Rogers, Standard Oilman: a personal estate of $26.000,000: to his widow, his daughter, his grandson and his son, Henry Jr., whose physicians say he has been in a state of nervous collapse since the shooting of Actress Evelyn Hoey at his farm (TIME, Sept...
...Emory University, Professor W. G. Workman, trying vainly to hypnotize a student for demonstration purposes by monotonous talk and having him stare at a chalk line, suddenly noticed that a watching member of the class had gone into a rigid trance. It was Charles Hudson, lonely, nervous junior, a star pupil in abnormal psychology. Professor Workman could not bring Charles Hudson out of the trance, prescribed exercise and normal activity. For three days fellow-students walked the blank-eyed boy around the campus, rode him on street cars, took him to a cinema. Suddenly, on the third day, Charles Hudson...