Word: fidgeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay's side in case of trouble. It is why, too-though they know the decisions of state are not theirs to make-that men in SAC often fidget at the notion that they must first be hit before they can hit back. Like most men, they prefer peace and life to war and the possibility of death, but more than most men, they have had to condition themselves to a pessimistic reading of the possibilities of peace...
...blown local guide (revised edition, 1910), which is all that the tourist is sure to find in the average British town bookshop. It also unobtrusively manages to deliver a great deal of shrewd literary and social satire. The reader who follows the career of the Figet (or Fidget) family from the days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani and drowned bathing at Cap d'Antibes one midnight) will know pretty well all there is to know about the average Whig...
...architectural drawings which form the backbone of the book. The illustration of one of the innumerable civic ceremonies graced by Edward VII as Prince of Wales says just about all there is to be said about such aspects of British municipal life, and the family group at Fidget Priory on Christmas 1907 is the last word on the English country house party in its heyday...
...sentimental favorite among the less important characters is Phillippa Bevans' performance as Lady Jasper Fidget, one of the ladies who partakes of Horner's favors. Miss Bevans brings an unexpected matronly air to the part of an adultress and delivers her lines with invincible good nature befitting her portly appearance. Like Mr. Ritchard she puts more into the part than Wycherley called...
...acting of the supporting cast is uniformly excellent. I especially enjoyed Thayer David's gross portrayal of Sir Jasper Fidget, though Earl Montgomery, Bryant Holiday, Eleanor MacLean, Leslie Paul, Naomi Raphaelson, and Jeanne Tufts all perform well. Kenneth Scott was imperturbably droll, though silent, in the part of Balthazar, a little colored boy who attends Sparkish (in its zest for "business" the Brattle group created this role out of thin...