Word: frighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report ownership of at least one automobile, although one reports, "None, scared of the damn things." Five own airplanes and 42 can pilot them, but the man who reported fright regarding automobiles comments, "God forbid." Less than half the class travels by plane at all, but 83 are regular passengers...
...from Centenary College (Shreveport, La.), expects to start graduate study next fall at Stanford. In his 17 years Edgar Friedenberg has been much annoyed by scientific jargon. Last week he addressed the conference on chemical education during the society's spring meeting at Dallas. Far from displaying stage fright or obsequiousness, Critic Friedenberg took these elder bulls of science sternly by the horns, warned them that they had better mend their talk...
President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System last week put his annual stockholders' report on the air- in direct competition with Kay Kyser's dance orchestra on NBC-and it delighted Columbia executives that Mr. Paley had a bad case of microphone fright. Hovering around him in his office at Columbia's Madison Avenue studios in Manhattan were two production men, two vice presidents, one engineer, two page boys. There were duplicate microphones in case one broke down, a precaution not usually taken with either Jack Benny or President Roosevelt...
...White hair. Depigmentation due to prolonged worry. (He discredits the legend that hair turns white overnight due to sudden fright...
...whole, however, the mode of presentation tends to be strenuously academic, at times almost ceremonial. One has the feeling as though some of the undergraduate authors were overpowered by their own sense of scientific responsibility: their method is cautiously conservative, their style weighted by terminology. Perhaps there is stage fright behind such mimicry. Whatever the cause, its effects are not conducive to first-rate journalism. Here is a wide realm for editorial guidance...