Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last of the great pre-Repeal gangsters left alive or at liberty is blank-faced, chicken-hearted Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy-game racket. "The cooler ain't never so cold as the morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...
...Their bosses, Your Honor," replied nervous Mr. Haller...
Bedeviled by a blight of interdictions and animadversions against AAA by processors, judges and Senators, nervous AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis has kept his tongue & temper fairly well under control. Last week his attention was called to the following advertisement in the Joplin, Mo. Globe...
...thousand ears cocked toward Governor Lehman's dedication: ". . . Saratoga Spa is not only a place for the chronically ill, but for those who although not afflicted with any organic or functional disorder, still are in need of rest and recuperation from unusual physical or nervous strain...
...expenses. When he took his fiancee to lunch with Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Oelrichs, Mrs. Belmont, they passed judgment on her, told him frankly, "We will make her the fashion. You need have no fear." But on their wedding night he dined alone, then, pale and nervous, told her that he had married her for her money, did not and never would love her, at last confessed that she was physically repulsive...