Word: timidating
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What a House & Senate majority could or would not do in the way of specific pension reform President Roosevelt was now ready to undertake if given full power. Gladly would he become the "whipping boy" (his word) for the veterans, thus letting timid members of Congress pass the blame to the White House. His proposal amounted to sweeping the whole patchwork pension system aside and starting afresh on a merit basis. Those with real War hurts would be fully cared for-but not malingerers. If a veteran was so permanently and totally disabled in civil life as to become...
...pleasant life, tutors and students alike might preserve a passive attitude without any serious consequences. But the distinction between resident and non-resident tutors was certainly intended to be more real than is implied in a mere use of House accommodations for board and lodging, and an occasional timid glance into the common room. Great care was exercised in selecting a well balanced staff of tutors for each House to provide appropriate cultural leaven. But this can become practical only through the easy association for which the House dining halls give ample opportunity...
...wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds its way into the compartment of the U. S. millionaire. The businessman is suspected of the murder, cleared about the time the train reaches Rome...
...German people should desert us, that will not restrain us!" he roared in a Berlin speech which timid Press censors first suppressed. "Whatever happens we will take the course that is necessary to save Germany from ruin!" ¶ In Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) 24 provincial governors and police chiefs "suspect of Republicanism" were ousted and replaced by reactionary government supporters such as Nazi Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, appointed Chief of Police of Berlin. Next day Prussian police started confiscating the passports of such famed Liberals & Pacifists as Hellmuth von Gerlach, thus cooping them in Germany...
...alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach, ''even if they don't learn a damned thing." Still another, Elsa Brandt (Katharine Cornell), spiritually writhes in agony in the bondage...