Word: highstrung
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...After James married her in 1878 his physical and emotional health improved markedly, and he launched into his significant work in psychology. Though her intelligence, beauty, and wit were highly regarded, she is surely remembered primarily for the composure, devotion, and sympathetic loyalty with which she watched over he highstrung husband...
...bottled mineral water, much of which gushes from a spring near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers ask the Seine Tribunal to muzzle the ads because they cast doubt on her love for her husband, thus injured "her honor, her happiness and her private life...
...Metropolitan Opera was still clearly enemy territory, but flashy, highstrung Diva Maria Callas found somewhere to sing in Manhattan anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused...
Marriage Revealed. Judy (Over the Rainbow) Garland, 30, highstrung singing star of screen and vaudeville; and Michael Sidney Luft, 36, her business agent; she for the third time, he for the second; on June 8 in Paicines, Calif...
Dressed in jacket and well-creased slacks, highstrung Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn boarded the liner America for England, where she will play the lead in a Liverpool production of Shaw's The Millionairess. "I've always wanted to do this part," twanged Katy. "This is a wonderful character embodying everything in me that people dislike, but which I like very much...