Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt appeared in last month's Catholic University Bulletin. Calmly running the risk of scandalizing other Catholics, Bishop Ryan's able young assistant, Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, labeled the retiring Rector "intolerant," "restless," "indiscreet," "inhuman" and possessed of a "superiority complex." Excerpts from his editorial...
...Pierre-Augustin Caron, afterward known as the French dramatist Beaumarchais. was typical of the ambitious, unscrupulous men of his age. He belonged in the ranks of those international adventurers and quick-change artists who floated around Europe in the days before the French Revolution, men of talent too restless to be content with their humble stations, too enlightened to accept the prevailing beliefs of their class, too adroit not to squeeze through the crevices that appeared when the social structure began splitting apart. But Beaumarchais' life had one distinction which was lacking in the careers of such blackmailers...
...those who would like to place themselves aloof from the clangor of the city tomorrow night, Adams House offers a penthouse atmosphere and the music of Don Gahan's orchestra to sooth that restless feeling...
...judged from If Memory Serves, the low point of Sacha Guitry's career was the performance of La Clef, which he wrote for Rejane. During the third act the audience, already restless, was offended at a scene in which a husband became seasick after discovering that his wife was deceiving him. Stamping in urison began, accompanied by a strange laughter. The laughter was "transformed into a sort of murmur," then into a "more nervous, snickering laugh," a deep, terrifying silence, a low rumble, then hissing. "If you have never heard yourself hissed you can have no notion...
...pads, two on each of its six feet, which secrete a sticky fluid and enable the fly to traverse vertical surfaces and ceilings. But as a magnet picks up nails, those pads pick up germs which are shed at every step. The appalling trail of potential infection which a restless fly leaves may be shown, the Institute stated, by causing the insect to walk across glass surfaced with sterile gelatin. Soon the footprints are visible under the microscope-outlined by teeming colonies of bacteria...