Word: milquetoasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...healthy than wealthy-and that all the money in the world won't ward off sickness. But when the BBC revived the old legend that the millionaire's stomach was so weak he had to live on milk and crackers, John D. Rockefeller Jr., no Milquetoast, rose up to deny the story. In a letter to the British publication, the Listener, John D. Jr. wrote: "The story .. . about my father's living simply on milk was entirely fictitious . . . Drinking milk was not any more of a habit with him than eating bread or meat . . . Milk...
...Alex Mackenzie, an actor who taught school in Clydebank until he was 61, is a grizzled old Scots beauty, and he can "throw a tub to a whale" (the Scottish phrase, aptly enough, for sharp practice) like few men since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried out. And the bonny little fiend of a cabin boy, Tommy Kearins, with his soup-bowl haircut and that grand commercial light in his eye, is every dirty...
Applied to most parts of the brain, electric stimulation has no effect on the monkey's emotions, but the hippocampal region (midway between the ears) is an exception. An electric tickle there turned a ferocious rhesus into a macaque Milquetoast; he even let Dr. Delgado take the liberty of stroking his face. The moment the current was turned off, he tried to bite...
Staid Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 61, is a new kind of President; he is neither a general nor a lawyer, but a bureaucrat. His nickname is Cara de Calavera, or Skullface; though he looks like Actor Boris Karloff, in his make-up there is a little Milquetoast: in movies, he obeys no-smoking rules even when everyone around him is puffing away. His favorite pastime is dominoes, though he also likes to watch baseball and stroll to street-corner stands to sip tamarind juice...
...story concerns Richard Sherman, a married New Yorker whose wife is away for the summer. Married for seven years and on earth for almost 40, he has reached that half-wolfish, half-mousy point when the eye begins to wander but the ego to worry, when Caspar Milquetoast sounds an alarm clock on Walter Mitty's dreams. There is an attractive young lady (Vanessa Brown) who lives in the apartment above Richard, and with whom he gets very pleasantly enmeshed. But there is a gaudy imagination and a lurid conscience that live within him, through which he gets enmeshed...