Word: timidation
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Mama Loves Papa (Paramount). A timid little clerk (Charles Ruggles) who loves making puns like "sanctuary much" which his fat wife (Mary Boland) fails to appreciate, appears at his office one morning dressed in a cutaway coat. This is because his wife has been lecturing him on the advantages of fine feathers; his employer takes it for granted that he has a funeral to go to, gives him the day off. The clerk goes for a stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that...
...cowards. We are red-hlooded American citizens!" clarioned Superintendent Willard E. Givens of Oakhind. Calif. ''The old idea of the teacher as a submissive, bookish person is impossible!" cried the Association's onetime President Florence Hale. "The teacher in the new deal must not be timid!" declared President Herman Lee Donovan of Eastern Kentucky State Teachers' College. "He should participate in politics ... as the champion of great and fundamental issues. . . ." Getting down to cases. Professor John Kelley Norton of Columbia's Teacher's College beat a dead horse when he flayed the banker...
Hans Pinneberg, 23, was a smalltown bookkeeper, a decent but rather timid sort. Cupid drove an arrow straight through Hans's heart when he and pretty young Bunny met on a temporarily deserted beach. Before they even knew each other's names they were married in every sense but the legal. Then a baby threatened, so they got married legally. Pinneberg lost his job, because his boss had wanted him for a son-in-law; there was nothing more for him in that town. His mother, who was no better than she should have been, wrote that...
...capacity for development. Once the original idea sinks in there is nothing very comical-unless you think a joke improves with repetition -about the war with the Greeks which presently sets in. Naturally Antiope falls in love with a Greek hoplite (David Manners). When Hercules-portrayed as a puffing, timid lout by Stanley Sandford- stumbles into camp he is roguishly made a prisoner by Hippolyta's ringlet-bearded little spouse, who subsequently realizes that he can advance his coy campaign for the emancipation of men by giving Hercules what he came for, the girdle of Diana. When Hercules skulks...
Concentration in Sociology gives one the opportunity of selecting courses in a broader range of related departments than does concentration in any other field. From the standpoint of the prospective concentrator, especially if he be somewhat timid and doubtful about the finality of his decision, this relative freedom to browse in sundry delectable fields of his own choice is a strong practical advantage. Most of the Older departments, like English, Classics, Mathematics, Music, the Natural Sciences, Fine Arts--are more thoroughly self-contained than the younger Social Sciences. History and, Anthropology, Government and Economics, Psychology and Literature, Philosophy and History...