Word: timidation
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...Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first manager, Hamilton Lorimer, matched him with an Indian named Chief Cariboo whom Baer knocked out in two rounds. After...
...Derby. By the time the horses lined up at Epsom Downs last week, Sidney Freeman in his Ritz Carlton suite was busy computing what profit the firm stood to make out of his U. S. commitments-over $100,000 for tickets or shares in tickets of timid ticketholders...
...dozen sets. He has designed marine engines for Gar AYood, contemplated making an airplane motor until he lost interest in flying three years ago because he thought it was too dangerous. He never rides in his racing cars, owns a small sedan which he drives with timid caution...
Fortnight ago Mrs. Barron Gift Collier Jr., daughter-in-law of Car-Card Tycoon Collier, answered a telephone call in her Manhattan home, heard a timid voice ask $200 for the return of some stolen letters. Quick-thinking Mrs. Collier demurred, arranged a second telephone talk, then informed police. When a messenger called, Mrs. Collier gave him a bundle of paper instead of $200, later convinced her blackmailer that he had been bilked by his own messenger. Last week she dragged out to ten minutes her sixth telephone conversation with him, was relieved to hear him suddenly plead...
...have dozens of spies coming to America as sailors on German boats. They are trying to spread hate among our people." If the Dickstein investigation has its way the U. S. Capitol will be turned into a public forum in which Nazis will be pilloried day after day and timid citizens will be led to believe that Chancellor Hitler is about to oust President Roosevelt. The Administration may officially refrain from taking part, but, worse, from the diplomatic standpoint, some of the Administration's best friends are certain to be heard. Raymond Moley was this week publishing in Today...