Word: milquetoasts
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Your allusion [TIME, May 25] to accepters of "A" gasoline-rationing cards as "meek, mild Milquetoasts" made me hopping mad. If cooperation with the Government in a critical situation denotes a lack of guts, we had better dig up Mr. C. Milquetoast's living counterpart to run the war effort...
Aside from the fact that it was an ill-chosen word, "Milquetoast" does not need "meek and mild" as modifiers; it includes those two adjectives, plus...
...mysterious creature named Annie, who never does appear.) Variations on the theme, which continually keep running in and out, include the struggle of a bouncing young man, played by Charles Bell, to get ahead in the world, the quarrels between a character evidently inspired by Caspar Milquetoast, played by Robert E. Perry, who also found time to direct the play, and his wife, played by a peroxidized young lady named Louise Kanasireff...
Franklin Roosevelt's legal eagle has been mild as mush, meek as Milquetoast. Ever since Dec. 7, the President has been waiting for him to wade into the ranks of known U.S. Bundists, Fascists and Axis sympathizers. Finally the President could wait no longer. He told Attorney General Biddle to rise up and smite all heathen idolaters...
After reminding you that any resemblance between the characters in the picture and a bunch of crooks in Louisiana is exactly what the authors intended, the film proceeds to chronicle the attempts of Victor Moore, a Caspar Milquetoast Senator from "a No'th'n state," to root out the stench that made New Orleans famous. Moore is superb, and he is the only member of the cast who isn't handicapped by the failure to speed up the tempo of the movies. Bob Hope plays William Gaxton's original role and while Hope is always good for his share...