Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mines. But she is not rich. Most profits go back into the company. She drives a battered Buick, stays at the home of her friends Senator & Mrs. Edward P. Costigan when she visits Washington. Surprisingly, she is a small, gentle, thoroughly feminine person with a soft voice, a quick, nervous laugh. Even in her coal mining office she dresses as most women dress for tea. At 47 her dark hair is greying, the lines of her firm jaw broadening, but her blue-grey eyes have lost not a spark of their vitality and fervor...
Netherlands. If other money-masters were too nervous, Queen Wilhelmina's square-headed, imperturbable Finance Minister Pieter Jacobus Oud was decidedly too calm...
...morrow toothy, nervous King Carol rode out to open Parliament with bland, lumpish little Crown Prince Mihai at his side. From the Throne, His Majesty announced that the Rumanian Army-already larger than the U. S. Army-must be further enlarged and equipped with even better Krupp guns "because of the prevailing international insecurity." That chore done, the state carriage clop-clopped back toward the palace. Suddenly a man darted from the crowd, thrust something into the laps of the King and Crown Prince. As at Marseille when King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated (TIME, Oct. 15), the usual ornate...
...slightest concerned about...the committee going before the Regional Labor Board, but I will make it quite nervous for quite a number of the Ledger chapter personnel if the thing ever reaches that point. You can go to all the regional boards you damn please but you will get no relief from the Ledger until you come to me personally...
...York Art Student's League, later in Paris. There he acquired the technique he still has, the loose draughtsmanship of the late great Anders Zorn. While in Munich, just before the Spanish-American War, Artist Gibson received a commission for some weekly pictures. A bald nervous little German came around looking for a job. From that followed a long series remembered by all Gibsonians as "The Education of Mr. Pipp...