Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naively he invited Teddy Roosevelt to back him. One evening in an overwrought condition he addressed a newspaper publishers' banquet in Philadelphia. He began by abusing the privileged classes, went on to abuse the Press, completely lost his head and launched into a meaningless tirade. Practically suffering a nervous breakdown, he repeated whole passages of his speech. After he had spoken for an hour and a half, his audience walked out on him. He continued his ravings for nearly an hour before collapsing. That one evening's illness killed his chances for the nomination that T. R. later...
Last week, in a libel suit against the Evening Star, Sir Oswald was telling a London jury that he had said no such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...
...last week Mr. Freeman installed himself at the Ritz-Carlton with a telephone and a great stack of U. S. currency at his elbow. Cables streamed in from London with instructions, betting odds. One after another ticket-holders shambled into his office, nervous, undecided, wanting to haggle. Mr. Freeman remained cool, crisp, firm as ever his father had been. "Take it or leave it. That's the price now and we may not be buying tickets on that horse later...
...even the Nazis laugh. Professor Wiener does his intelligence no credit if he thinks those who run Germany are fools. Let him call them flends if he will, but not fools. They know exactly what they want (Regard--Oh, Democracy!) and the chances are, that in spite of the nervous French and the nervous Jews, they will get it. In History, is or is it not that that counts...
...went on to say that "stammering has been proven to be a disaffection which can be overcome with nothing but a lot of determination and practice, and contrary to the general impression, it is not the result of any physical, emotional, or nervous disability...