Word: bashfulness
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...sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection in the voice and the complete absence of expression on the face." Writing of English millinery they call attention to "the tailored felt, worn en bash over the eyebrows or well back on the head, its slant depending on whether you prefer to have the rain pour down your back or your chest." Of food: "Toast: Is a cold, hard fact faced by the cook the instant she rises and then set aside to get colder...
Hailed by Nazis as a master stroke, almost the first economic act of the Hitler regime was to bash together those two able rivals, Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd...
...they are absolute in their own spheres, they have the prerogative, a sort of vail as compensation for the numerous inconveniences which they suffer in their office, of doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with equal impunity. Of course, they run a risk of embarrassment in case they abuse their privileges. There is still extant a Professor who walked into the New Lecture Hall to see how his assistant was supervising an examination in his popular survey...
...fighters apart but failed. This time, all the players on both teams rushed at each other not to stop the fight but to enlarge it. Private detectives, uniformed policemen and about 300 spectators rushed down on the field. The spectators, armed with bats they had picked up, tried to bash the players. The players bashed each other and the spectators. After 20 minutes, police managed to restore enough order for the ball game to proceed. After five more innings, the Yankees...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley accepted the $275,000 monument for the Government. Brigadier General Louis Hermann Bash read a letter from President Hoover, presented the rain-splotched paper to Mr. Wright. Said Mr. Wright: "Thank you." It was his only speech...