Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officially the President was there to dedicate a $1,700,000 hospital to treat nervous diseases of War veterans. Actually he was there to serve notice on the American Legion, meeting this week in Miami, that this is no time to revive its campaign for prepayment of the Bonus. Not once during his eight-minute talk did he mention the Bonus by name, but the President made it quite clear that the nation's destitute had first call on the nation's purse. Said he: "The veterans of the World War, today in the prime of life...
...Aleppo, Syria, when Australians Woods & Bennett turned over in landing. Scott & Black, pushing their engines to the limit, swept into Singapore that night with heavy black smoke pouring from their exhaust. Alarmed field officials rushed out with fire engines. Scott asked for two glasses of beer, danced with nervous impatience...
...tried all the known diets to rid himself of nervous dyspepsia: vegetarian, raw meat, raw vegetables, nuts. milk. But he could probably subsist on publicity alone. It is meat and drink to him. He is not much of a businessman. In one breath he says that his publishing business brings him in more than the $10,000 salary of California's Governor. In the next he swears he has less than $150 in the bank. Fact is, the Sinclairs are still floundering in insolvency as a result of financing Director Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder Over Mexico, Upton...
...Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch for Lerroux. At week's end they had jailed Largo Caballero, silenced the rebels' guns everywhere except in the northern province of Asturias, where revolt traditionally dies hard...
...class, never got a demerit. In the Mexican campaign he quitted himself so ably that his commanding officer, General Scott, referred to him as "the very best soldier that I ever saw in the field." Though often under fire, nearest he came to death was when a nervous U. S. sentry's bullet passed between his left arm and his body, singeing his uniform. After his Mexican service, Lee was superintendent of West Point for three years. Lee commanded the troops that ended John Brown's ill-timed revolt at Harpers Ferry. Just before the Civil War broke...