Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck instead of the head. He toppled and the crowd surged up to mob the guards. Women screamed, fainted. Windows crashed. Teachers hurled school books. A second teacher was supposed to have been clubbed in the mêlée. Outside the bank a larger crowd grew restless; excited male teachers and bystanders tussled among themselves. Anything might have happened had not shrewd Leader Fewkes brought President Pettibone to a window, helped him over the ledge, held him in place while he ad- dressed...
...Author's insatiable and restless curiosity has led him into many queer places and situations in his 47 years; his unabashed frankness in reporting his unusual adventures has paid him good dividends. Son of a Lutheran minister in Maryland, he was a newshawk on the Augusta, Ga. Chronicle, then worked his way for nine months at the University of Geneva, returned to the U. S. to go into advertising. Private in the French Army during the War, he was gassed at Verdun. After the War he started writing in Manhattan. One evening in 1924 he met an Arab, shortly...
...receivership was the petition of seven publishers to whom Brentano's owed sums up to $19,000 each. For some time the firm has been operating on a standstill agreement providing the freezing of some $375,000 owed to publishers. Last week two or three publishers grew restless. Receivership followed. Other publishers pointed out that if Brentano's were forced to liquidate half a million dollars worth of books would be thrown on the market at bargain prices. Brentano's, which increased the number of its stores from three to ten before the Depression, had been caught...
...seven years, while a series of revolutions have exploded and fizzled out beneath him, Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona has sat tight in the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal. While the world was paying little attention last week, and with Dictator Carmona's hand still on the reins, Portugal took an important step. Black-hatted townsfolk and barefooted mountaineers trooped to the polls to approve a proposed new Constitution for Portugal, providing for the election of the President by popular vote instead of by Parliament. It was the first time in five years that...
...President's room to sign bills, Mr. Roosevelt to the Military Affairs Committee Room down the same hall to kill time. Louisiana's Long, spying the new President, started to sweep in upon him blatantly, changed his mind at the threshold, tiptoed away. Mr. Roosevelt was restless to get going. Ten minutes before noon he moved down the corridor toward the Senate, only to be stopped at the door, told that it was not yet time for his entrance. "All right, we'll go back and wait some more," he laughed...