Word: timidation
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...know very well that there is no simple solution to this problem. But I can neither understand nor excuse a Government which is too timid or befuddled to attempt a solution. . . . Even 75 to 100 million dollars in the present bill before the Congress for emergency aid to China would change the entire situation psychologically...
...Advocate, timid and hesitating when it came back last Spring has grown bolder now that it has re-established its old, though questionable, spot in the undergraduates hearts. In a word, it's getting more "aesthetic." The long, serious story smacks self-consciously of Jayvee, the short, light one of Virginia Woolf and what is really unfortunate, the medium-sized, straight forward story is loaded with cliches of technique and language. Some excellent art and drama criticism helps the magazine out of what many may consider the esoteric doldrums, but the real regret of the impartial follower of the Advocate...
Cynthia (MGM) is a timid smalltown girl (Elizabeth Taylor) in distress. Born delicate, she is kept sickly by her own unhappiness, her frustrated, overanxious parents (George Murphy, Mary Astor) and her pompous doctor-uncle (Gene Lockhart), who bullies the whole family. Music (S. Z. Sakall) and Young Love (James Lydon) arouse in Cynthia a desire to live-and to live like other girls...
...Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a Technicolored distention of James Thurber's short story about a daydreaming timid-soul, is Danny Kaye's funniest movie. Henpecked half out of his senses by his mother (Fay Bainter) and threatened with worse by a sinister fiancee (Ann Rutherford) and prospective mother-in-law (Florence Bates), the celluloid Mitty (Kaye) deserves a Secret Life if ever a man did. He has several, all derived from the ferocious pulps he is paid to proofread...
...Harlot's Guest. The hostess is an ex-prostitute named Mrs. Goodman. Among her guests: a kindly, timid intellectual, Max Ford; Max's brother Tom, physician and egocentric man of action; Father Morton, doddering, syphilitic priest; Daisy Tillet, "girl of the golden legs," to whom both brothers are attracted; Miss Black, who switched from an unfaithful Italian lover to religion...