Word: timidation
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...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...
...well--the popular conception of registration day at a big college. You've seen it in the movies, perhaps, or read it in the magazines. There are always some aloof, self-confident seniors, a middle group of rowdy juniors and sophomores, and then the great mass of freshmen, timid and unsure of themselves. It would be hard to convince the scenario and pulp writers that there is anything wrong with this picture, but if you look closely in the Yard this weekend, you may discover that it isn't entirely accurate. Of course, you Freshmen will be there, feeling...
...have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when Sid Grauman, still unsatisfied, sneaked up from behind and bore down (see cut). Bedaubed & bewildered, Barrymore cursed, was still digging concrete from his ear when he left...
...Japan was still feudal, backward, timid abroad and slack within. A revolution in that year returned the Emperor Meiji to great prestige and broke ground for the industrial revolution which suddenly made Japan a world economic peril if not power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity...
Bouncing along on a Manhattan subway last May, innocent Leo Pigola, 45, shifted nervously under the hard, steady stare of a middle-aged woman who was seated across the aisle. When the woman asked: "Do I know you?" and "Did you ever live near Eighth Street and Second Avenue?" timid Mr. Pigola had had enough. Explaining that he came from Paterson, N. J., he slipped off the train at the next stop...