Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful with his I Am Dreaming of the Loved Ones and The Detacher's Dog ("Oh where! Oh where! ish mine little dog gone?"). During the Civil War another song almost undid him. Lincoln removed General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac for being over cautious. Popular sentiment favored McClellan's reinstatement, caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army. In spite...
...Paris 65-year-old Henri Guilloux, cautious chauffeur to the late King Edward VII of England, suddenly ran amok, murdered a neighbor, hanged his wife, killed himself...
...announcing our results at this time to get the help of other researcher and doctors. . . ." With that cautious preamble, Homeopaths Garth Wilkinsor Boericke & William Wallace Young of Philadelphia last week announced a novel method of treating pneumonia, rheumatic fever, influenza and childbed fever with injections of emulsified...
...downers sat tight behind their barricades. Two days later Chrysler followed General Motors' example by getting the judge to issue warrants for the arrest of the sitters and their leaders. This time it was not necessary for Governor Murphy to command a sheriff to ignore the court order. Cautious Sheriff Thomas J. Wilcox simply refused to budge. To enforce a similar ouster against only 100 sit-downers, armed with meat hooks and cleavers, in the Newton Packing Co. plant, the sheriff figured he would need 600 deputies. In the same ratio, an army of 36,000 would be required...
...fifth consecutive year; in Manhattan. Last major race of the board-track season, the Columbian Mile is often the most remarkable. In 1934, Cunningham won it in the amazingly fast time of 4:08.4, a world's record (indoors). In 1936, when all the entrants were too cautious to set the pace, he won in the ridiculously slow time of 4:46.8. Last week, the race upheld its tradition. Cunningham, climaxing a season in which he has won five of the six major miles, ran the first half of the race two seconds faster than...