Word: strung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be a little aggravating at times, just like most people who are nervous and high strung. But when you have learned how to understand her incisive way of speaking and her determined manner of saying 'No, I won't stand for that,' or her way of declaring 'That won't do at all,' you will find Mrs. Hammonds is a real adjunct to the efficiency of this office...
...considered just about the best in town. Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often they do not mean much. This one might have meant a lot five years ago. It is a study of a high-strung virgin much in love with her sister's husband. The resulting tale of how she smashed his home with hysteric lies is another portrait of the sex-starved woman. There have been many such portraits in life and letters of late. Hidden is another good one; affords an interesting...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine felt like a person who, upon making some sound in the presence of a high-strung friend, is suddenly turned upon and bitterly accused of willful noisiness...
...Chicago Tribune, not squeamish, carried an advertising sketch of a "tweaker." Superficially this instrument resembles a pair of scissors between the points and handles of which four flexible strands are strung and intertwined in curious fashion...
...Nationalist" Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, June 13). It seemed not unlikely that "Dictator" Chang was sounding last week the first brave notes of his swan dirge. At any rate, the Occidental diplomats at Peking did not honor his "inauguration" by their presence, seemed totally unimpressed. The wire was strung, the bags piled up (TIME, April 11) to barricade the Occidental quarter at Shanghai against possible Chinese violence after that city was taken by the "Nationalist" armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, March 28). Last week the danger of Chinese violence at Shanghai was thought to have vanished...