Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride was composed, the groom was nervous and muffed his lines. In St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis before a gathering in which newsmen outnumbered relatives two to one, Vice President Alben Barkley married Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley. She is 38; he will be 72 this week...
Coca-Colonized? As the Foreign Ministers continued their talks in the Parrot Room of the French Foreign Ministry, Schuman grew increasingly nervous. With a foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed...
Horrible or not, said Bacon, his pictures were not supposed to mean a thing. "They are just an attempt to make a certain type of feeling visual . . . Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas...
Something Practical. Chatting with Firbank was hard sledding, because a nervous constriction of the throat reduced him to long spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his stomach; once, at a banquet given in his honor, he only succeeded in getting down one green pea. Alcohol met with no such obstruction, and flowed down in imposing quantities...
...Sinner. "I traveled with a racking headache and a morphine bottle," Mary Chesnut wrote of her trip from Charleston to the secession conference in Montgomery, Ala. "I felt a nervous dread and horror of this break with so great a power as the United States, but I was ready and willing." In Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other...