Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-radical, half-timid measures caused Senator Joseph Caillaux to charge the Cabinet in open debate with "Lilliputian Rooseveltism." For example, M. Auriol announced an enormous issue of "Baby Bonds," apparently to be bought by Socialists and Communists of modest means to help the Cabinet make a stand against the "Financial Oligarchy...
...skill of lawyers representing the borrower, the banker and the trustee (but never the investor) have reduced the duties of corporate trusteeship to a few clerical motions, the liabilities to virtually nothing. Moreover, SEC found that "subtle influences of friendship and business relations" tended to make the trustee "a timid and ineffectual representative of security holders...
...interest the Exposition will have a force of rangerettes complete with chaps and 10-gal. hats, who will act as ushers, tell timid matrons where to find comfort stations, etc. As official hostess was chosen 21-year-old Frances Nalle, with the title of Texas "Bluebonnet Girl."† And last week at San Antonio, Governor Allred crowned Janice Jarrat, artists' model (whose portrait appears on the cover of June Cosmopolitan) as the "Sweetheart of Texas Centennial" with the duty of acting as mistress of ceremonies at all the Fair's broadcasts, appearing at all major Centennial celebrations during...
...young Mr. Clement's real importance in OARP. The resulting split left the oldster undisputed master of the movement. Meantime anecdotes began circulating in Washington to the effect that his enormous publicity, his vast audiences, his worshipful followers, his new-found wealth and the obvious terror in which timid Congressmen held him had gone to Dr. Townsend's head. "World by Tail" From Old Age Revolving Pensions, Dr. Townsend testified, he had received salary and expenses totaling $16,557. His dividends from the National Townsend Weekly amounted to some $38,500. Of this total he said...
...party. Back as the luckless Don Jose was Armand Tokatyan. for eleven years (1922-33) a leading Metropolitan tenor. Newcomer was pretty little Natalie Bodanskaya, 22, who grew up in a $9-a-month, cold-water flat in Manhattan's slums. Soprano Bodanskaya made her debut as the timid Micaela, won a warm ovation for her clear, fluty singing...