Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week one of the Balkan terrorists arrested after the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander finally cracked under the strain of being peeped...
Swedish police arrested last week that courtier of King Gustaf V who has been nearest to the font of Swedish chivalry. The exalted prisoner, Baron Nils Stiernstedt, proved touchy. When his captors tried to question him he had a magnificent nervous breakdown. Swedish papers were so scared of the story that Swedes had to dig most details out of Danish papers...
...Peoria, Ill., Ernest T. Faulkner sued the man his automobile had run over, for damages for mental shock and nervous disorders...
...utilitarian part of the show is passed, and the straight entertishment begins. Wedged in between an archery range and an air-rifle concession are a nervous elk and a depressed buffalo, designed to give the public a neat cross section of the fauna west of Natick and north of Cambridge...
...slick, entertaining film of a modern Cinderella, The Gilded Lily moves plausibly through many plot impossibilities with Miss Colbert looking extraordinarily beautiful in chic Travis Banton frocks. Fred MacMurray, onetime jazz-band leader, dark-browed and handsome in his first leading role, is obviously nervous in some scenes but does, on the whole, creditable work and will probably be hailed as Hollywood's new great lover. Pleasantly directed by Wesley Ruggles, this film just misses being a worthy successor to It Happened One Night, to which it will undoubtedly be compared...