Word: timidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
...large bedroom of St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, a thin-haired little man who looks like a timid clerk last week shot com mands at eight tired businessmen. "Little Bill" Miller, probably the country's foremost relaxation expert, was holding class-at $100 a head for six one-hour lessons...
Latest name for flashing light, alias "blinding bulb." Now the pensive Mr. Lange comes up with "flickering filament.". . Bad Habits Department: K. W. Deadler's insistence on reserving his timid and apologetic queries until just on the hour when it's time for the smoking lamp to light...
...pursues a timid barber whose sexual career has been sparse if not Spartan...
...housed. He gets to his small eighth-floor office about 9, reads papers and his mail until n, when the day's editorial conference starts. As editor, he attends it religiously, sits at the table head in his shirt sleeves, leads the discussion. At first he was timid, usually ending suggestions with a querulous, English-accented "What do you fellows think?" Now he has become surer of himself and of what he wants the Sun to stand...