Word: skittishness
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...crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby specialist (Cary Grant). When he tries to escape, she lures him back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same, until the ingenious huntress invents a third swain (Eddie Albert), meant to be a home-town admirer who yearns to take her away from it all. For a while...
...Will Menninger himself is a convincing explanation of why the public is getting less skittish about psychiatry. Plainly neither a crackpot nor a "foreigner," Psychiatrist Menninger is a big (6 ft. 1 in., 189 lbs.), friendly "nice guy." He is genuinely modest about holding practically all the top posts in his profession ("They shoved me up there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost...
...sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time, and I have to put a curb-bit in that horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman Catholic charger. There are twenty million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think and vote as their Church advises...
Universe in Flight. Astronomers have a speedometer to clock the motions of skittish heavenly bodies. They take spectrographs: photographs of the body's light spread out by a prism into a band of colors. If the band is "shifted toward the red" (i.e., if it is redder than normal), it shows that the body is moving away from the earth...
...obviously cut out of slick paper. But Joan Crawford knows as well as any movie star how to make such a manhandled heroine into a magic mirror for women moviegoers. Henry Fonda is a shrewd comedian, in spite of having to play that eternal Lost Little Boy who unleashes skittish maternal emotions. Dana Andrews, a most talented actor, has to call someone "honeybunch" umpteen times in this show, yet he never fails to make it a more or less fresh revelation of character. Director Otto Preminger is expert at the glossy details that are useful to this sort of story...