Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week; and instead of a Senate, a Corporative Council appointed by Carmona who is very much a Dictator. With this blend of Fascism and Democracy, the spry, spare general, who has Portugal's comparatively huge army in his pocket, hopes to cure Portugal gradually of its nervous habit of periodic revolution-18 since...
...probable that she will never marry. . . . Her training and genius should not be forced, for she is easily made nervous and her mind can be excited to her detriment; in which case she is restless, her control is lost, and she may be more than sarcastic. . . . There is a divergence of views about her and these views will have some publicity. . . . Indeed it looks as if this year should be spent in retirement with as little effort as possible to attain further prominence. . . ." For her tenth birthday, three days after her Manhattan concert, Ruth's horoscope was read again...
When the S.S Rex steamed into New York harbor one evening last week reporters clambered aboard to interview a celebrated passenger. They found a nervous little man who wore spats, a bright checkered scarf and a fur-lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...
...almost pagan quality are surprised to hear that he is ardently religious, says his prayers and goes regularly to the Russian Orthodox Church. But even with his faith and fervor Stravinsky has remained a rabid hypochondriac, always worrying over his own and everyone else's health. His nervous hope last week was that U. S. audiences would be more understanding than the customs officer who picked a package of wordless scores from his luggage and asked him in what language he had written them...
Last month in Manhattan in answer to the uneasy rumbling voiced by businessmen at a Congress of American Industry, Donald Richberg taunted: "Unless the businessmen of America have been shell-shocked into nervous impotence, there must come a time when they will respond to the fighting spirit of that old admiral who signaled, 'Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead...