Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dwight Whitney Morrow told members of Manhattan's Women's City Club how, when they were in Mexico, her husband had censored her recently published children's book. The Painted Pig. Because its characters were little Mexicans, cautious Ambassador Morrow changed the sentence "but generals are brittle and easily broken" to read "but glass generals are brittle. . . ." When he had perused the book he sent it for consideration to the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...some mathematicians, like Jeans, are bilingual, can also make themselves understood in fairly plain English. Cautious, Jeans concepts does can not be admit that translated; math says the most you can do is to talk in analogies that must not be taken too literally. "A scientific study of the action of the uni verse appears to have been designed by a pure mathematician. . . . The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
From Virginia came Hampton (Negro) with thousands of black rooters, to take revenge on Lincoln of Pennsylvania for beating them last year. Both teams were so extraordinarily cautious that Hampton scored only three first downs, Lincoln only two. Quarterback Hiawatha Harris of Hampton disgusted his followers by the way he handled punts and was replaced by Long Beam who juggled less. Famed Halfback Edgar ("Beau") Guess did nothing whatever. Hampton 0, Lincoln...
Well does a U. S. President know that he must step gingerly among religious sectarians, and always speak softly to all sects. President Hoover, Quaker, has been particularly cautious. His victory over Roman Catholic Alfred Emanuel Smith was fraught with religious feeling. When he sends a greeting to a religious convention-as to the Catholics at Omaha (TIME, Sept. 29) or to the Lutherans at Milwaukee (TIME, Oct. 20) he tries hard to be noncommittal. But sometimes a President, or his aide, slips.* At once some sensitive soul cries out in anguish or anger. This happened last week. A prominent...
...because of his repeated private appearances in the news, the Press of the land has watched his career closely. Knowing well that a clergyman whose morals have been called in question is one of the most dangerous news creatures there is, most of the Press has been cautious. Unafraid, however, have been Publisher William Randolph Hearst and the Patterson-McCormick combine of Chicago. Both thoroughly Wet, neither of them deeply religious, both these powers of the Press have investigated the Prohibishop boldly, intimately. Last week, with his spiritual trial in Virginia yet to stand, Bishop Cannon turned sharply...