Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer the new tax rates remain unknown, the longer must business be restless. Washington wiseacres interpreted the Smoot-Mellon "delay" as an adroit political shift by the Administration to chastise those business groups (notably the U. S. Chamber of Commerce) which have been urging a far larger tax cut than Secretary Mellon thinks safe. It was also interpreted as a move to put anti-Administration senators on the defensive for the action of their colleagues in the House, who wrote a tax-cut 65 millions larger than the Treasury advised...
...Right Honorable Members, grown restless, welcomed a diversion caused when the electric light circuit of the House was interrupted for more than an hour. The Speaker uttered, for the first time in a decade, an antique command: "Let candles be brought in!" When debate was recommenced by candlelight, jocund Members testified to the inconsequence of the proceedings by blowing out the candles as fast as they were lighted, until it became necessary to adjourn the House while electricians tinkered...
Vice President Charles Cason of the Chemical National Bank of Manhattan was University of Virginia's businessman speaker last week. He waited for the restless students to quiet down, then said: "The real responsible leaders in Wall Street today are big men- men of brains, men of vision, men of honor. There are scrubs, too, to be sure, for they break into every place. They create much of the public misunderstanding and criticism of Wall Street. But the scrubs do not run Wall Street any more than they dominate this beautiful university of culture...
...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
...forcible, clinical reality. Their few faults are where the scientist betrays the craftsman in over-insistence upon data. Elsewhere the craftsman dramatizes the data unforgettably, especially in a long passage where the emotions of a dozen people at a roulette table are followed, as in cinema, by watching the restless activity of their hands...