Word: loath
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...within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell himself has helped circulate the impression that "some day. . . ." Characteristic is the legend that he has placed in a safe deposit box the names of those who might cheerfully see him "rubbed out," with a detailed account of their motives...
...House Plan follows the Harvard system, it is not only calculated to make Joe Yale a brighter, but a more social lad. Although many an alumnus is loath to admit it, the organization of Yale today is strikingly dissimilar to that of Old Yale. A strong basis of Yale college life has been the class. When classes were counted in scores, the spirit of comradeship and the spirit of college tradition went hand in hand. Classmates, knowing each other by name and nickname, gayly did battle against other classes, drank beer at Mory's together, crowded the Fence...
...Professor Fisher, so Professor Fisher replied "I don't know" to questions asked by the committee's counsel. Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Assistant Attorney-General. Finally Professor Fisher admitted that he was unprepared, had not made any particular study of Public Utilities. Loath to take a zero for the day's recitation, however, Professor Fisher offered a vast prophecy which, if valid, bears weightily on public utilities and all other forms of business...
...bobbled down Broadway. An admiring crowd had watched their maudlin progress to the front of the R. H. Macy's (department store)?which they were advertising. There the ropes were cut and the Katzenjammers soared off into the sky followed by the vague animals. Herr Inspektor, loath to soar, ogled into office windows until 20 feet had been cut off his traditional whiskers...
...refusal to receive a deputation of three former Prime Ministers,* who asked for an audience in order that they might jointly urge upon His Majesty "the imperative need for some modification of the dictatorship." They were informed by the palace majordomo, the Duque de Miranda, that "the King is loath to intervene in the present situation...