Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheep herder is Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...
Died. Mrs. Viola Austman Fokker, 29, of Manhattan, Danish wife of the famed Dutch aircraft builder Anthony H. G. Fokker; by a 15-floor fall from her apartment window; in Manhattan. Mrs. Fokker had spent weeks in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Her death occurred on the evening of her return, while her husband dozed. Grief-stricken, he had to be restrained from leaping after...
...face was yellowish. He looked haggard, nervous, irritable. He sounded querulous. An internal disease, which last summer he feared would kill him before he could complete his newest theory, has made him so. That disease?plus the harrying visitors who buzzed and scraped about him the past fortnight, and years of indoor, sedentary work. Dr. Einstein, like so many other Jews and scholars, takes no physical exercise...
...Federal Reserve policies and functions. Meanwhile, however, speculators were inclined to feel that the Reserve Board's big words were larger than any big stick it might produce, that it was perhaps talking chiefly for the not inconsiderable moral effect which its speech actually did have upon a nervous and inflated Exchange...
Surgery. Spinal anesthesia by new chemicals. Anesthesia per rectum by ether with olive oil, particularly useful where exophthalmic goitre makes a patient nervous. Human liver found to exercise a profound protective influence against harmful products entering the blood by way of the intestinal canal. Recognition that brain tumors may develop suddenly and rapidly, that the electric cautery knife makes possible more complete removal of brain and spinal cord tumors...