Word: timidation
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...since he left his bicycle in the West, he finds it necessary to resort to ambulation. He usually walks from ten to fifteen miles a day. It was while walking around Central Park that he memorized the lines for the show in which he is now playing. "Being a timid young man," said Nagel. "I avoided the inside of the Park, where thugs and bogey men have been very active lately...
...help. Next step in Dr. Tilney's study of learning processes is to phonograph every sound a child makes from birth until it begins to talk coherently. That speech study waits on some interested philanthropist providing a few thousand dollars. A merry account of doughty Johnny and timid Jimmy Dr. McGraw took to Chicago last week for the 41st convention of the American Psychological Association. Her gayety was refreshing there. For the psychologists were squabbling about the Psychological Corporation. Dr. James McKeen Cattell, 73, pioneer U. S. psychologist, formed Psychological Corp. twelve years ago. This was one of several...
...with unscrupulous labor leaders, aided by thugs to do the bombing, window smashing and shooting and backed by crooked politicians and shyster lawyers. He induced kinetic Edwin J. Raber to serve as his special prosecutor. Able Lawyer Raber dug into old newspaper files, searched police records, tapped wires, persuaded timid witnesses to tell the grand jury all they knew. First fruits of these efforts were last week's indictments against cleaners & dyers, laundry owners, their union cohorts and counselors. Prosecutor Raber did not bother with the little underworldlings but went straight to the top to nab presidents of trade...
...heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood. Since her earliest successes in Candida (1903-04), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1907-10), she, like her longtime friend Marie Dressier (see p. 23), usually portrayed old ladies. Unlike Marie Dressler's, her old ladies were usually gentle, whimsical, timid...
...Culbertson, Theodore A. Lightner, Michael T. Gottlieb: the "international bridge championship" for a trophy put up by Charles M. Schwab; against a British team of four, whose bidding grew timid after they had piled up an early lead, 104,080 points to 93,180 after 300 boards; in London. Wrote Ely Culbertson in his description of the match which was played in two glass-enclosed rooms at Selfridge's Department store, with periscopes outside the walls for spectators: "The hands were tough and the battle was a titanic one but gradually we began to impose our will...