Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lyons-Malamuth version is reported to be considerably less cautious than that presented in Russia. As staged last week the play includes a ludicrous cartoon of a small, shrill, Leninist stickler who accuses Ludmilla of "right deviations" and insists on "liquidating the canary." Ludmilla defines a bourgeois thus: "A bourgeois is a person who's got something that someone else wants...
...general, with two amiable, intelligent, irresponsible Harvard boys in particular. Last week Author Flandrau prefaced a slim collection of these sketches with a long, ingratiating introduction almost entirely given over to an account of the formidable difficulties that a candid young writer faced in a period when editors were cautious to the point of timidity...
...still in conference between the Senate and the House for final adjustment, and there are some others that the President would like to see action upon. . . . Under the circumstances I feel we will be fortunate to get through by Aug. 20." Lending weight to the Majority Leader's cautious hint was the fact that President Roosevelt wants to get away to address on Aug. 23 the Young Democrats of America convening in Milwaukee, does not want to leave Congress in session to nip at his fast-flying political heels. It was up to Congress, therefore...
...East this week was the abrupt appointment of Japan's arch-Fascist and patrioteer Yosuke Matsuoka as President of Japan's most potent engine of economic expansion into China, the South Manchuria Railway. This appointment ousted S. M. R.'s comparatively mild and cautious president, Count Hirotaro Hayashi, who balked schemes of Japanese jingoes to establish a Development Company for North China in which S. M. R. would hold a controlling interest. Such a company was to exploit North China, as the British East India Company exploited India a century...
Although Ethnologist Lowie writes for plain readers, avoids the technicalities of advanced ethnology, laymen are likely to find his conclusions too cautious, may be irritated by the qualifications and exceptions he notes to the general patterns of Crow behavior. That even primitive society was complex, dense, marked with restrictions and taboos, is plain from The Crow Indians, and readers who follow Ethnologist Lowie's account of his difficulties with native language and customs are likely to be made permanently skeptical of most popular accounts of life among the Indians. Where more superficial observers, for example, might be content...