Word: skittishly
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...esteemed daily contemporary, The Crimson departing from its usual purpose of stabilizing, solemnizing and advising the universe, burnt into unexpected capera worthy of its skittish rival. With great particularity and ponderosity it told of the alleged financial straits of The Lampoon, printed a supposed confession from its president that it would have to shut up shop unless it got help. Especially affecting was the gravity with which "The Crime," as the wicked call it, shed tears over the thwarting of The Lampoon's efforts "to maintain a high standard of clean, wholesome humor." The Crime must be trying to hide...
...many a tear." Actor Cohan, who wrote the piece, also wrote in a little part (that of the young litterateur's sister) so that his pretty daughter Helen Frances might make her Broadway debut. Cloudy With Showers- This is the one about the shy college professor and the skittish maiden who bets that she can make him enamored of her - and wins the bet. At no time does the farce get any closer to sanity than those late famed collegiate musicomedies, Good News and You Said It. But Cloudy With Showers has a certain breathlessness about it which...
...Guardsmen, weary of the eight-week fray, wanted to go home and lick their wounds in private. Democrats also craved a respite; the charge, false or true, that their action on the tariff was largely responsible for the stockmarket crash and business uncertainty made them skittish about pressing their victories...
Runabouts, hydroplanes, outboards all had their events at Red Bank. In a final grand free-for-all for a special trophy molded from a solid gold brick, presented by Barren Collier, two drivers of skittish little outboards, encouraged by the result of the gold cup race, entered their craft on the slim hope that the hydroplanes would all tip over, fall apart or blow...
...that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...