Word: timidating
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...Grave and stately in appearance," says the "Nation," "Dr. Eliot is not in reality an austere man. Even a slight intimacy reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic...
Mariane and Dorine, Miss Grew and Miss Thayer, were excellent complements, the one an over modest, timid little girl with a tendency to dramatic action and the other keen of wit and ready to plan common-sense solutions...
...United States." They point the finger of derision at the "impartial" jury who selected the winning plan--six of whom, out of the seven, were members of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. And everyone who reads the prize winning plan must see that divested of some timid reservations and a great deal of camouflage it means neither more nor less than entrance in the League itself...
...fears, those very fears which have made us hesitate, should teach us that the peace of the world is necessary to our safety. Let it not be said that the United States of America is too blind to see that a world divided against itself cannot stand, too timid to take her place among the nations of the world, too selfish or too weak to aid them. Rather let it be said that no personal enmity, nor party rivalry, nor national selfishness, blindness, weakness, and timidity can hinder her from seeing that she cannot secede form the world without inviting...
...HARDIN & SON-Brand Whitlock-Appleton ($2.00). Our former Ambassador to Belgium revisits an Ohio Main Street. His findings are not precisely Sinclair Lewis's, but neither are they those of the local Kiwanis. J. Hardin, grim, Puritanical buggy manufacturer, could not sympathize with his son, Paul's timid reaching-out toward a life a little less dour. The senior Hardin spent his life and himself in the fight for Prohibition-his very iron honesty ruined his buggy-business. Paul was more successful-but his father's spirit conquered in him, at last, when, offered an opportunity...