Word: timidation
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Those two amiable wage Stuart Erwin and Skeets Gallagter, make "Bachelor Bait" very amusing. It is the story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
Chipper Japanese officers said when they came ashore: "Our naval exercises are part of a program which necessarily places control of the approaches of North China with the Japanese fleet." When timid Chinese newsorgans murmured that Japan's war games were interfering with Chinese shipping, the Japanese commander snorted "Ridiculous...
...Rhymster, an experience which he compares to that of the youthful Keats on first looking into Chapman's Homer. Free verse and bizarre modern forms get short shrift from Rhymster Braley. The critics, in his opinion, know nothing about professional writing. And editors are a bad-mannered, incompetent, timid, unreliable lot of numbskulls with "more taboos than a South African savage...
Friends of Mr. Sweeney (Warner). Asaph Holliday (Charles Ruggles), hero of this picture, is a journalistic guppy, small, ashamed and ludicrous, writing timid editorials in a journal of opinion called The Balance. When his old college mate, Rixey (Eugene Pallette), arrives in town, a change takes place in Asaph. He calls up his assistant (Ann Dvorak) and orders her to come to dinner. At a swank night club, to which he gains admittance by saying to the doorman "We are friends of Mr. Sweeney," he gambles coolly with $1,000 chips under the impression that they cost $1. Finally, with...
...questioned 50 more couples, found the ratio grown to one in three. This year he had repeated his quiz once more. Every other couple, he learned, were as good as married. Conference air grew tense as slim, spry Dr. Dickinson declared: "The doctors are too timid to face the situation. These couples are not promiscuous. Only three had gone beyond the one man-one woman relationship. They are so faithful that they have developed a substandard of morality, such as we would not have believed possible...