Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personalities of several hundred normal characters who suffered from hormonal disturbances of the pituitary, thyroid, adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous system. He found little evidence that a person's endocrine glands determine the type of his personality...
...persimmon." Vice President S. J. Maddin was a "pineapple.'' an other official a "gooseberry." Missouri-Kansas was called "lemons." The Chicago Stock Exchange was "blackberries," the New York Stock Exchange "dewberries." In 1931 Frank Parish began to grow suspicious. Spy Walker contrived to have a nervous breakdown the following year, hurried to Kansas City where Cities Service paid her $1,900 back salary and bonus, dismissed...
...Stalin, who took his first ride on the third day of the free "dress rehearsals," was most interested in the escalators installed in two of the stations. He had never seen one before, rode up & down twice. The moving staircases terrified most Communists. Militiamen were told off to hold nervous women by the hand...
...week was when the Federated ladies conducted their biennial Young Artists' Contest, awarded $1,000 prizes to the three most worthy applicants for whom the Schubert Memorial will arrange public engagements. Preliminary heats had been held in 36 regional districts. For the Philadelphia finals there were eight nervous survivors. The three big winners: Violinist Joseph Knitzer, 22, from Manhattan; Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, a pupil of Olga Samaroff; Contralto Margaret Harshaw, 23, a stenographer for Bell Telephone Co. in Philadelphia...
Katherine Rawls is 17, 107 lb., with a boyish face, short kinky hair, the physique of a nervous minnow. Brought up in Miami, she was a prodigy at 7, a national champion at 13 and is now considered the ablest all-around female swimmer in the U. S. Last year "Minnow" Rawls was A. A. U. low-board diving champion. This year she decided not to defend her diving championship, to try for a clean sweep in four swimming events, the most any contestant is allowed to enter. The three she won were 100-yd. freestyle, 300-yd. medley...