Word: jangledness
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In Washington Gus went to live at the White House. One day the well-trained White House servants heard a burst of jangled melody from the East Room, hurried in and found Gus, who had taught himself to play the piano by a mail-order system, pounding out jazz on...
It was a frenzied drama. Russell and Palmerston plotting behind Minister Adams's back; Minister Adams sensing it, yet soothing the jangled feelings of Secretary of State Seward with optimistic dispatches. Without Minister Adam's consummate statecraft the United States of America might never have emerged from the Civil strife...
At anchor behind Napoleon's breakwater in Cherbourg Harbor last week lay the huge U. S. battleship Oklahoma. Suddenly telephones jangled in the captain's cabin. Washington was calling with urgent orders. All leaves were to be canceled. Most of the Annapolis midshipmen aboard on summer training cruise...
At Gorrahei, Italy's advance base on the Southern front last week, bugles blew, whistles shrilled, field telephones jangled all day long. Staff officers beat on their folding desks, demanding action while sergeants stalked about impressively. Sweating squads of half-naked soldiers unloaded dust-coated trucks, then for no...
But Boston's finest must be afflicted with Jangled Nerves, because when Albort Mollinger of the League against War and Fascism started to shout louder and louder, some official, as yet unidentified, thought, "What the hell Why wait?" and loosed the cager bluecoats on the passive mob.