Word: frightingly
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...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...
Today Bill McGovern sometimes fright ens Chicago moppets by walking along the city streets in a Persian shepherd's coat and peaked Astrakhan hat. He goes to tea in a frock coat, striped trousers, blue shirt and yellow shoes, wears the same shoes with tails to the opera. Because the uni versity forbids smoking in classrooms, he holds his seminars at home, where he can smoke his big-bowled, curved-stem pipe...
...wave nature of electrons, awarded to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. Each will receive about $20,000. Said dark, lantern-jawed Dr. Davisson, already much honored for his researches: "I am suffering from a bad case of stage fright...
...idea of a duel to the blood originated in the mind of that super-pressagent, Fred Schwankovsky, as a means of advertising the Fencing Club Dance. . . . The rehearsal of the routine was wonderful but both principals had stage fright, when the duel came off. ... It was mediocre fencing and poor acting. There was no "jet of blood." The wound from an epee is usually a superficial cut that takes a few seconds to stop bleeding. This was no exception. I have seen more excitement and more blood in a spontaneous duel, coming off during the class period. . . . FRANK DITURI...
...mass production of 15-minute shows. They needed bright youngsters who would work cheap. Janet Gaynor swung on a chandelier from the stage of Loew's State in Los Angeles; Myrna Loy's rice-powdered legs pranced in many a chorus; Bing Crosby, shaking with stage fright, croaked Mississippi Mud. A buxom girl soprano who had worked with them in Tait's signed a Metropolitan opera contract in a round, florid hand: Mary Lewis. Others who drew Fanchon & Marco checks were Martha Raye, June Knight, Mitchell & Durant, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs...