Word: skittishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beautician Arden has a lot of fun naming her horses. Beaugay got hers "because the horse was so beautiful and gay." A little too gay sometimes, the skittish filly often snaps at her self-styled "sugar mama," won't have anything to do with...
Returning refreshed from Hyde Park, and no longer skittish about saying that he had been there (see PRESS), Franklin Roosevelt plunged into a full week...
Slow-talking, 36-year-old Farmer Butters did not launch his odd scheme without encountering certain difficulties. First he had to find some buffalo. The Government finally agreed to sell him a herd then roaming the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. Then bankers were skittish about lending him the purchase price. Butters mortgaged his two farms and bought the herd...
Together Again (Columbia) is a title which presumably refers to the fact that Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer once made a successful romance called Love Affair (1939), and are now at it once more. It can hardly refer to the present picture. Its story is a skittish, moderately ribald frappé about a small-town mayoress (Miss Dunne), her father-in-law (Charles Coburn), and a sculptor (Mr. Boyer) who remodels her career...
...questions, the businessmen were skittish, mainly because they were not sure what they wanted. Example: when Robert Gaylord, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, was asked about tariffs, he replied: "We favor low tariffs, but we want to protect American industry and living standards...