Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study the biggest and best abortoriums in the world, Mrs. Sanger last August went to Russia. What she saw there caused her pertly to warn Joseph Stalin and other virile Russians: "Abortions make women nervous. It is common knowledge that the practice of abortion, if it becomes a habit, can do considerable harm to woman's sex life. Neuroses may develop and these in turn may result in frigidity. In this country woman is no longer economically dependent on man. If she becomes frigid, she will not be dependent on him in any other way and, in fact, will...
...Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...
When news of the suicide of Henry Charles Whitehouse reached London, Strauss & Co.'s second largest stockholder collapsed in a sweat, was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. Trading on the hoary old Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange, biggest grain market in Europe, virtually halted while the managers posted a notice cancelling Strauss & Co.'s trading privileges. In Bombay, Bank of India and five other Indian banks started proceedings to collect the money which Manager Whitehouse had been ordered to stop paying. That day it was announced that Strauss & Co. had failed with losses estimated...
...indulges in few of the acrobatic tricks that make the work of smaller goalies more spectacular. These qualities give his style of play a peculiar indolence which he exaggerates as much as possible. Instead of chattering encouragement to his teammates, the method by which most goalies relieve their nervous tension, he munches slowly a huge wad of chewing gum, rarely speaks a word during a game. Instead of waving his arms, he lounges against his cage as if it were a mantelpiece. All this helps mask his real capabilities: preternaturally quick eyes, phenomenal ability to spread his bulky frame across...
...Boston City and Boston Psychopathic Hospitals, carrying on private practice, fathering two sons. A semiprofessional swimmer, he competes annually in the twelve-mile race from Charlestown to Boston Light. During the past two years he has been collecting and editing studies on the problems of syphilis of the nervous system...