Word: timidation
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Author Seabrook, though he looks like a timid college professor, has been in many outlandish places, done many outlandish things. Insatiably curious and unabashed, he has seen, done and told about things few other white men would. Wirkus looks upon blacks as children; Seabrook regards them as primitives, with primitive knowledge and dark secrets which no civilized man can fathom. A onetime reporter and short story writer, his reports of his own adventures have been bestsellers. He has lived with a Bedouin tribe, with Druses in the Arabian mountains, in a whirling-dervish monastery at Tripoli, with Yezidee devil worshipers...
...native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized in the subject, Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., vindicates Du Chaillu's account on the basis of his own experiences with the coast species, less timid than those of the interior and which type the early explorer described. Not insignificant was the encouragement Dr. Jeffries Wyman of Harvard gave the Gorilla Hunter in the sixties when the latter was sending him his first specimens...
...exists in many quarters against the Eton College Beagles. . . . We do most strongly submit that Eton boys, with all the interests of the river and the playing-fields and the chance of practically every recreation which wealth and association afford, should resolve no longer to seek pleasure in hunting timid hares to death, but if cross-country exercise is still desired, should adopt the drag hunt, as practiced for years by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge as well as by several of the military staff, and other colleges...
...cash as an evidence of good faith before they would pay off. She went to Chicago, first told Mr. Litsinger that she needed the money for business purposes, later apprising him of the real circumstances. Then she returned to Springfield. Accompanied by Mr. Litsinger's nephew Fred, a timid youth of 27, she met the gamblers, who inveigled the young man into staking the money on a turn of the cards. Neither she nor young Mr. Litsinger quite understood what went on after that, but the gamesters pocketed the money and slid from the room...
...slamming of heavy doors upon newshawks' noses last week as fourscore representatives of the 34 organizations composing the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, met secretly to devise ways & means of checking the Wet groundswell throughout the land. To reporters it was explained that many Prohibitors, particularly women, were "very timid" and hesitated to speak their minds before the Press...