Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Greenwich Village, Carmel, Provincetown and all those other foci of cultural infection which pimple the fair face of our land." The Author had a gun of his own at 9, at 11 began shooting deer, riding range with the cattlemen round his native Albuquerque, N. Mex. After a restless course at two universities he passed his forest ranger's examination, was waiting for an appointment when his father. New Mexico's only Representative, offered him a government job in Washington. After three weeks he quit the service to try newspaper work, in Washington. Savannah, Richmond. Back...
School Children's Sleep, as recorded by Emory University's Professor Charles Glenville Giddings Jr., is most restless during the first and last half hours. Children who ate heavy evening meals moved 100 times or more during nine hours' sleep. Children who ate ordinary dinners rolled half as often. Contrary to general belief, a warm bath before going to bed does not soothe a child, but a glass of warm milk does...
Courtship Itch. Dr. William Waddell Duke of Kansas City cited the case of a heat-sensitive swain who feared making love to his sweetheart because every time he caressed her he had an itching attack, and was obliged to scratch. Contrariwise, cold makes certain sensitive individuals restless. Surrogated Dr. Duke: "It's extremely unfortunate if a husband is cold sensitive and his wife heat sensitive. He feels good if he's active, and the same thing makes her feel...
With discipline relaxed the pilots amused themselves like college footballers on the eve of a Big Game. One restless fellow laid hold of Marco, the squadron's donkey mascot, painted zebra stripes on him. Others held a mock election for the recipient of an ivory plaque carved with the figure of an eagle clutching the Italian flag in its mouth. The plaque had been sent by a girl in Rome to "the pilot who has no sweetheart." The pilots elected Lieut. Cadringheri, and all autographed a picture of one of the squadron's seaplanes to send...
...family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even more rootedly proletarian than his. Mixture of Pennsylvania Dutch and Iowa stock, plain in face and nature. Josephine Herbst has spent 38 restless years. After college (at the Universities of Iowa and California) she went abroad, in Paris met and married radical Author John Herrmann, lifelong friend of Ernest Hemingway. They lived in Paris two years, then wandered to Germany, Italy, Seattle, San Francisco, Manhattan, bought a farm in Erwina, Pa., where they...