Word: cautioningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haste into precision. His eye is cool; his strokes are like insults uttered in a careful voice. But the man of legend is a Jack of a different silk. Bleak in person and in countenance, sprung of a thin and righteous line of thee-and-thouers, he has sharpened caution into vehemence: every bravery of his stride is his, every fine conceit of skill and insolence. For a while his thundering ways prevailed, and the crowd cheered; then the soft-spoken stranger won back his lost advantage and more too, so that he seemed to surpass the champion...
...Doumergue has been nicknamed "Le President qui rit." His smile is infectious. He speaks with all his heart and his heart is good, sensible, generous. A sturdy Gascon of Nîmes, he loves an occasional bull fight. "They please me," he once declared with habitual caution, "more than do some other spectacles that are supposed to be pleasant." The "other spectacles" included nothing not mentionable. M. Le President, though a bachelor, is accounted among the most celibate of that...
...Where were cares lost at 9 p. m., caution at 12, scruples at 3, sanity before dawn...
...Mexico. They were students, and eager friends* of students, and joyful models of students at the Academie des Beaux Arts. The year's work was over and preparations were in order for the annual Quatre Arts ball where all cares are lost at 9 o'clock, all caution at 12, all scruples and costumes at 3, all sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among...
...last Saturday he made no shifts; it was Coach Stevens of Harvard who had to rearrange his boat when Barton, No. 3, sprained three vertebrae in his neck in a boathouse accident. Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood a length and a half ahead at the mile mark. The Harvard stroke got faster, the Harvard shell moved up, half a length behind, to even terms...