Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young quintet won out in a rough game because it deserved to win, the play was fast and hard, both teams were nervous, but the Crimson never gave up, and managed to hold its slight lead to the final whistle. The team had an advantage in height over the Jumbos, Gray being especially useful, and they were greatly benefitted by Tufts' complete inability to sink free throws...
Wearing overalls and a blue hickory shirt over a yellow one, Lead Belly sang in Manhattan last week for University of Texas alumni. And John Lomax was nervous. Theatrical agents and radio scouts insisted on hearing his protege, who had been out on a wild 24-hour rampage in Harlem. Until it was time for him to sing Lomax kept his hell-raising minstrel locked up in a coat room. But the performance went off without mishap. Lead Belly's voice is rich and clear. He plays and sings with his eyes closed, taps single time with one foot...
...French Ambassador to Italy, swiveled around last week to face a reporter. "Miss Elsa Sittell is very religious," said he. "She was once a choir singer in a Bronx Catholic church. She is very conscientious and it is her habit to say what she thinks. She is of a nervous temperament. "We are doing everything we can." continued Count René. "I have appealed to the French Foreign Office and to the American Ambassador...
Baldish. a bachelor, with a high, nervous voice. Author Wilder writes like an educated angel, talks like an educated Poll, still feels that he has much to learn...
...where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money and a lot of skill a player can so jiggle the dials that the claws will fish...