Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
They also found themselves imitating their master's mannerisms. They scribbled furiously on the nearest blackboard, talked in soft, deep tones, combed agitated fingers through tousled hair, grunted an excited "Ja, Ja" or a nervous "Hunh, Hunh." They learned to careen along with a perpetual, preoccupied stoop; some even took up chain-smoking and blue shirts...
Last week, the mob of music fans who stormed into Radio City's modernistic Studio 8-H for the opening concert of Toscanini's eleventh NBC season, heard a concert to be remembered. As usual, shy, nervous Pianist Horowitz almost had to be propelled onstage. But, once there, the power and diamond-hard brilliance of his playing had the studio audience bravoing between movements, despite NBC's standing request to the audience not to applaud until the work is finished. When it was finally over, little, white-topped Papa and slender, dark-haired Volodya stood together, bowing...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...
Butterflies & Sibling. Dr. Will takes his own medicine. True, he smokes two packs of Chesterfields a day, a quantity that some psychiatrists might consider a mildly alarming nervous habit. But since it is sound psychiatry to have a wholesome hobby, Dr. Will goes in heavily for hobbies. When he took a week off last August, he spent 14 hours a day on his stamp collection. He collects butterflies and goes on bird walks (his only form of exercise). He also plays the organ and piano...