Word: timidation
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After her farmer-husband died, Mrs. Lessie Mills, of Fort Meade, Fla., took to babying the youngest of her five children. As a result, Jimmy Mills got to be known as "mama's pet," grew up so timid that he was afraid to go to bed at night unless his mother were close at hand...
...Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories about artists who go blind; baby sister Dagmar pines for a menagerie; demure Aunt Trina becomes the tremulous bride of a timid undertaker's assistant...
...London. As cinema, its prospects are unpredictable. Like the play, it suffers from naive lubberliness, reminiscent of Eugene O'Neill at his worst. But it also has some of the most stinging and salutary talk about prewar blindness, postwar prospects and their causes which has ever reached the timid screen. Its edged, cultivated production and its heartfelt acting-particularly that of brilliant Barbara Mullen-also help to turn the struggle of the protagonists into drama a fraction as searching and noble as the author intended...
...becomes the local Sinatra by claiming to have killed his father. Opposite him, playing the feminine lead of Pegeen Mike, is the Idler president, Leslie Paul, who finds herself overcome by his lethal charms. Out of luck, is Shawn Keogh, played by Ingersoll Cunningham V-12, a timid suitor, sever quite ready to take the big plunge...
...years Canada has had on its books a national civilian-conscription law somewhat like the one that Franklin Roosevelt unsuccessfully asked Congress to enact in the U.S. At first timid enforcement weakened Canada's law. Now, apparently, N.S.S. officers are beginning to get tough...