Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnny, get down," ordered Miss Williams, but Johnny was inclined to be disobedient. "You see, Johnny is really an important member of the cast, even though there was no part written for him in the play. He comes on the stage and whines and misbehaves, and is terribly restless, and doesn't realize he's on the stage. He makes everybody laugh when they should pay attention to the rest...
Louis Lepine, "King of the Paris streets," is dead. For eighteen years this suave, dapper little man ruled the greatest of continental cities as Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...
...with Deere & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, prepared him. Alexander Legge of International Harvester called his competitor home to sit on the War Industries Board. Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director of the Council of National Defense and the Board's biographer, has described Peek as "impetuous, impatient, impulsive, explosive, restless, driving ... a photographic observer. . . . For Peek the world was a sharp black-&-white drawing. His decisions were as clear-cut as Legge's, but they somewhat offended; and all the more because they were right. . . . You resented the sting of Peek's commanding dictum...
...Restless spectators moved toward the exits and Harvard rooters began celebrating a 7-to-0 victory over Dartmouth as the game drew into its final two minutes. Then a Dartmouth substitute halfback named Bill Clark ripped through tackle, tore 56 yd. to a touchdown. Another substitute, Don Hagerman, coolly kicked the extra point, and Dartmouth squeaked back into the season's undefeated list...
...McKee in such a way as to involve President Roosevelt, is finding his role very difficult as the waves recede on either side. First, it will be remembered, Mr. Curry tricked him into a pledge to support the regular Democratic candidate Dr. O'Brien. The President became a little restless under this stratagem, but when Mr. LaGuardia really let loose at McKee and Farley, he felt that a little easing was in order. Accordingly, Mr. Farley has been instructed to announce that his support of McKee is a personal fealty which does not involve Washington...