Word: skittishness
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...today, Nominee Taft in 1908 was a President's hand-picked successor. Also like Hoover, he had never before run for a public executive office. With Roosevelt's aegis over his personal distinction, he easily beat Bryan. On a blizzardy 4th of March he drove, behind four skittish bay horses, to be inaugurated in the Senate Chamber...
Cruel is the possibility that the Kellogg Treaty may perhaps never be so much as ratified by the U. S. Senate-not to mention other skittish Senates...
...Story. Victor Campion was born at The Maples on his father's birthday. His advent was hastened by a spring gust off the Delaware that blew a little white shawl from Mamma's neck into the face of Papa's skittish new filly. Papa was pitched on his head in the drive, never to see his heir. Mamma crumpled on the steps...
...Frank would save towards college. Elimination bees in different cities had thinned out the competitors to nine state champions, who laughed to hear the cinchy words they began the finals with-"catch, black, grant, warm." First to drop out was Almeda Pennington of Houston, Tex., who slipped up on "skittish." "Scittish," Almeda spelled it. Mary Coddens, the little Belgian girl from South Bend, Ind., was next. She has spoken English only five years, but never faltered until she mixed "cosmos," the universe with "cosmas," a flower. Loren Mackey, the bass-voiced Oklahoma boy, followed Mary out. "Propeller...
...tumbling Errol is the principal object of art in some extremely decorative snapshots of musical-comedy France. The comedian seems a bit less springy than formerly, for constant falls have not taken the jar off his spine. But he is as potent as ever in his tipsy dizziness, his skittish gallop. Beneath its bald dome, his elastic face is still fluent with its infantile grimaces...