Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy Boris Stein, an avowed plugger for the Pact; Franz von Papen with high officials in Moscow, twice; and, three weeks ago,when all was arranged, Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano with the prospective signer, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Count Ciano went home in a state of high nervous excitement...
Andre Tardieu, 63, the baldish, bankerish French statesman whose countrymen used to call him "I'Americain" for his bustle and bluntness, lay gravely ill last week at Menton after a nervous breakdown. He was the last living French signer of the Treaty of Versailles, and as Death knocked at his door, the last bitter fruits of that treaty were dropping off history's tree into the ample lap of France...
...Japanese brother-in-law, Kovichi Seito. About 5:30 a.m.. a few minutes after the young Dictator had retired to an upper room, his guests heard a shot. They found German Busch with a bullet hole in his temple. Quick surgery failed to save him. Suicide, escape from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors for Bolivia's welfare, was the official explanation. No one came forward to suggest any darker explanation, but observers looked for a change in Bolivia's national direction with Colonel Busch gone. "Glory to President Busch! Long live Bolivia!" cried General Carlos Quintanilla...
There is little heroic in a war of nerves. Its assaults are vicious whispers and strident insults, currency raids, press bombardments, radio tirades; its triumphs have scarcely more grandeur than a nervous breakdown...
...employ 4,000 bicycling newsboys, operate a fleet of 400 big red trucks. Head of this vast near-monopoly is the black-mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite suspensions from the Royal Air Force after they had released streamers of toilet paper over his Thames Bank estate...