Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Senator Bilbo, is well educated, has a brilliant mind, a strong physical body, a lively imagination, and a nervous energy, and for more than 20 years has spent practically his entire time and energy in constructing, energising, and consumating remedial and beneficial legislation in an effort to amelerate the unfortunate condition of the sick, the blind, the insane, the feebleminded, and the Veterans of the Civil, and World...
Momentarily the street was stunned. There was nervous selling after the first reports of the deaths. Foreign exchange became active as French francs were sold. French, Jugo-Slavian and Italian bonds were sold. Then the trading quieted
...Sinclair professes readiness to cooperate with the President to the fullest extent, at least to the fullest extent of an ex-Socialist's powers. If he were really in deep sympathy with the New Deal, it seems that his inclination should be to assist the President to reassure a nervous business and financial world, rather than to place it, so far as California is concerned, in a condition of plain hysterics...
Angelina, the psychotic Portuguese, was frail, nervous and shy as a child. She wet the bed and had nightmares. This annoyed her stepmother. After Angelina began working as a chocolate-dipper she began to run around with boys, not for money but for trinkets, meals, good times. She bobbed her hair and said a kidnapper did it. Soon after, she caused her parents more anguish by dyeing her hair a flaming red and taking to bright-colored berets, tawdry dresses and high heels. When they found her bedding in a cellar with an Italian janitor's son, they...
Italy's Foreign Minister was busy last week. Growing more & more nervous over his mounting influence in Austria and Hungary, Jugoslavia topped off a two-month press attack with a violent outburst against Fascist Italy and all its works. Published were entirely imaginary stories of strikes and riots in Milan and Turin in which dozens were supposed to have been killed. The semi-official Vreme of Belgrade touched the sorest spot of all with a sneering description of Italy's Wartime defeat at Caporetto and ugly references to the cowardice of the Italian army...