Word: timidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, a scrawny little character scurried up Sixth Avenue, peering in a timid manner at elevated trains, passersby. On the lookout for anarchists about to bomb subway stations, Patrolman William Burns, wearing official trousers, civilian coat, as he returned to his 4 a. m. beat, gave chase. "Stop!" he bellowed, lumbering after his prey. Scared, the little man he was chasing ducked into a bystreet. "They must be after somebody," he thought. "I don't want to get hit if they start shooting." Patrolman Burns, scenting adventure, shot twice into the air to make an effect...
...incessantly about the World State that science will eventually create. A sophisticated ineffectual from the U. S., a Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, assists the great man by neatly defining as "meanwhiling" the occupation of all people, himself included, who are not consciously accelerating the World State's arrival. A timid Tory, and a British Fascist; a beautiful Lady Catherine; some tennis and bridge players including a Puppy Clarges (female) ; and Cynthia's intensely inarticulate husband, Philip, are the audience to whom the deplorable nature of "meanwhiling" is revealed with varying effects...
Your opening paragraph under RELIGION is a gem this week (July 11). No denominational paper dares do what you do under that heading: tell all the truth. I wish you could double or treble the amount of space you give. Hypocrisy, cant, superstition are timid of facts. There is no fear for faith in truth...
...Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen thought about their life insurance, President...
...These conferences are thus reduced to occasions when the President secretly tells an obedient press what he would like to have printed about himself. . . are now little more than the personal publicity machine of Calvin Coolidge. . . . For a modest and a timid man Mr. Coolidge has a quite extraordinary fondness for the privileges of an autocrat...