Word: timidating
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After showing several pictures of various American animals and birds, taken by rather ingenious methods, he devoted the rest of his lecture to the grizzly and his habits. Contrary to the general notion the grizzly is timid and way, and all his movements are governed by extreme caution. He has taken many photographs of them, however, by means of the telephoto lens, and by the flashlight cartridge, which the bear operates himself by touching a wire...
...amendment can be made so long as so many--I might say rew--as twelve States withhold their endorsement. Should not this pregnant fact alone be sufficient to banish the fears of the timid, resolve the doubts of those who are undecided, and stimulate the courage and arouse the energy of those who would employ the living, instead of invoking ever and only the guidance of the dead...
...confusing effect as a boiler shop, or a train in a tunnel, so that at the time when a man should be devoting all of his attention to the task before him, he may be prevented from concentrating his mind. The popular idea that a man may be made timid by the shouts of opponents I believe to be much overrated...
...education: it is the opportunity for one, and is what you make it. It can deliver a man at the end, blankly unaware of the high things among which he has been moving, a vacant idler, or a stupid book-man, a heavy-witted athlete, a timid nonentity, or a snob already stifled in the stale air of exclusiveness; or it can send him out free of the great brotherhood of educated men, stirred with the challenge of life, the life, of ideas and no less the life...
...articulation was indistinct from his constant attempt to imitate the shrill treble of an old lady. With the exception of F. B. Thompson and L. de Koven, the acting was rather suppressed in the attempt to give the French accent and intonation correctly. E. C. Edson as Leandre, the timid son of the old judge, played his part with great skill and he impersonated the character of the subdued lover very carefully. W. A. Burnham as Isabelle, was well made up and acted the part of the proud daughter of Chicaneau very daintily...