Word: cautiously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here are all the pert buffoonery, sly satire, light irreverence of the Follies of yesteryear. Here, too, are the gay settings of Aline Bernstein, the devastating mimicry of Albert Carroll. "Cautious Cal" sits on a Vermont front porch industriously knitting and singing the praises of isolation. Indignant sex-actors revile District Attorney Banton and padlock censorship in gay lampoon. But over the whole proceedings hangs a dim pall of melancholy. For after the production runs its two weeks' course, the company will disband, the aspiring but indigent Neighborhood Playhouse closes its doors for the last time. Flatly dull...
From any but the Coolidge lips these sentences might have fallen cynically. In themselves they mean nothing. But in their context they were warm praise from a cautious...
...Jose etc, etc, etc, acted by George Higginson '27 ambassador and lieutenant of King Philipe of Spain, who don't mean right by our Nell! Ramon, scorned and repulsed, carries out to the best of his ability the commands of his King, as well he should do, and with cautious footstep and deep breathing he attempts to--but you'll have to see that for yourself...
...forth-coming in its final form. The reform of the abuses to which intercollegiate football is at present subject, the further development of intramural sports and athletics for all, on these things Harvard and Dartmouth agree. Toward attaining those ends Harvard has so far chosen to be slow and cautious. That method, certainly useful when sympathy among other colleges for Harvard's aims appeared doubtful, is no longer necessary. Dartmouth has taken the lead, Harvard, in view of its announced principles, can do nothing less than cooperate to the fullest extent possible...
...days later the statesmanship of U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg assumedly prompted Vice Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commanding the U. S. forces at Shanghai, to imitate the British parade, though in more cautious fashion. Twelve hundred U. S. marines marched, but they did not venture beyond the international city. None the less Chinese knew this meant that the U. S. is standing with Britain in the present crisis...