Word: caution
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Taussig has never been conspicuous for his head-long boldness or panther-like jumping at conclusions and his usual caution has not deserted him in "American Business Leaders." In contradiction to journalistic style, he opens each chapter with a series of explanations, reservations, and qualifications; gingerly indicating toward the end a few acceptable conclusions. This unnecessary humility on Professor Taussig's part is the reviewer's only object of criticism...
...worn track of merely Talking Socialism. "Labor must be definitely international in its outlook," he orated vaguely. "The National Government is Toryism without disguise. . . . There is need for an advance toward Socialism. . . ." Taking this bit in their teeth, the delegates galloped, bolted. While Leader Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that men like Arthur Henderson (onetime Foreign Secretary) may ever again enter a Cabinet and neglect to fight from the Government bench...
...Caution is a sterling British virtue. To British caution may be due the fact that not one British bank failed last year, against the 2,298 that collapsed in the U. S. Last week Charles Gideon Murray. Viscount Elibank. angrily told the London Press of an occasion when British caution was not so successful. As Chairman of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, Lord Elibank journeyed to the Ottawa conference to see what immediate orders he could pick up for British firms...
...field with his colored starting flags tucked under one arm?red for "all clear," white for "go," checkered for "last lap." Usually he has a cigar in the side of his mouth, always he wears a ten-gallon hat, even when he flies, which he does with grandmotherly caution...
...long habit of friendliness finally got the better of him. He thought the thistles ought to be cleared out of the alfalfa field on his son Rudolph's farm. "He put the horses to the buggy rake and set about raking up those thistles. He behaved with guilty caution. . . ." Two days later. Neighbor Rosicky was dead. He was buried in a little square of long grass that seemed right "for a man who had helped to do the work of great cities and had always longed for the open country and had got to it at last...