Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medically there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. But when a successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician will call his condition a nervous breakdown. Technically the businessman is suffering from a neurosis. He is not mad. Nor is he apt to go insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold...
Neuroses do not always explode into nervous breakdowns. Habitual stammering, scratching the nose, twiddling, scolding or recoiling are signs of trouble in one's personality and serve as safety valves. If such signs of nervousness continue for a long time a neurotic disease is almost certain to develop. Among such groups of ailments...
...What Next?" In the remaining full gold standard countries, France, Switzerland and The Netherlands, nervous public opinion echoed the Manchester Guardian which editorially exclaimed "After Belgium, what next...
...Slovenes from Carniola. Peter Gale (whose immigrant grandfather was called Galé) shared a pup-tent with Adamic in the A. E. F. until he was wounded and gassed. Nine years after the War Adamic met Peter again, in Los Angeles. Peter was apparently a typical drifter, nervous, unsettled, unhappy, a newspaperman who never stayed in one place more than a few months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front" for the Los Angeles beer racket and one of Capone's lieutenants. A goodhearted, not too brainy racketeer...
Mary Moore was nervous but she clutched her chiffon handkerchief and met the test bravely. Her voice is small but it is smooth, appealing. Unlike many a coloratura she was faithful to pitch throughout the laciest passages, took her top notes truly. In appearance the Met's youngest singer is as Irish as her ancestors who, she says, "were kings and poets and all." Her father is an employe of Anaconda Van Service. An uncle, Joseph Eustace, who encouraged her from the start, works for the New York City Government...