Word: milquetoast
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...Louis' Municipal Auditorium, Alfred M. Landon took the platform, accompanied for the first time in the campaign by his wife and his daughter. The crowd shouted in frenzy. "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen," he began. Not a word was audible above the hubbub. Long-suffering as Caspar Milquetoast, he repeated his salutation ten or a dozen times before the crowd permitted him to be heard. Then, halting frequently, with eyes often searching anxiously for his place in his manuscript, Alf Landon read the closing speech of his campaign, not a much better orator than he began...
Furthermore, if timid Mr. Caspar Milquetoast should sit down next to him in a train and commence, out of nervousness, to talk about the weather...
...would mean, ipso facto, to Mr. Nash that of brains by weight and volume Mr. Milquetoast has no more than a feather...
...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...
...that recalls another story about people who ease their indignation by writing letters: Casper Milquetoast, in a fit of public spirit, wrote to the Pullman company about insects in his berth and promptly received a complimentary and apologetic letter two pages long. He proudly displayed this to his friends as proof that corporations do have souls, until some cynic discovered and pointed out to him a faint penciled note on the back: 'Send this s.o.b. the bug letter...