Word: ticklishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question around to the viewpoint of the spectator, from whose grandstand Mr. Heydler took one look at the problem. Half the nervous thrill of baseball comes when "the weak end of the order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey, mighty Casey, or someone nearly as mighty, is advancing...
Rome. Observers marvelled, and wondered what Candidate Smith and his managers would think, when James John Walker, New York City's glib and dapper Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were...
Sometimes threats and blusterings succeed when fair words fail. For some weeks U. S. Cinema Censor Will H. Hays has been in Paris speaking none but fair words (TIME, April 2). His ticklish task has been to persuade the Cinematic Control Commission of the French Ministry of Public Instruction that it ought to modify a recent drastic decree. This was, in effect, that U. S. cinema dramas would be licensed for exhibition in France solely upon condition that for every four films so licensed U. S. exhibitors would purchase one French film and display it throughout...
That debaters in the U. S. Congress were trying to observe a truce on the Nicaraguan situation and other subjects ticklish to the Pan-American Congress...
...stages a delightful, farcical frivolity that skips over the stage and down the aisles on pleasantly intimate terms with its audience. A French bridegroom must match a rare straw hat on his wedding day. Encumbered by a rural wedding party, driven by a fierce Lieutenant, he squirms from one ticklish situation to another, while the audience's amusement is heightened by music with strong rhythm, a buoyant chorus of youthful actors, ingenious flipping about of scenery...