Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Original it is. It is daring only by contrast with Hollywood's timid preference for doing, insofar as possible, only what has been done before. Actually, nothing interests people more than matters which do not concern them. Things to Come is therefore magnificent entertainment and a tribute to the sound showmanship that has made Producer Korda the kingpin in England's booming cinema industry...
Investigation disclosed that the parcel had been mailed from the nearby University postal station. While Syracusans last week gossiped excitedly about the bold "Communist" student plot against the life of conservative, close-mouthed Chancellor Flint, up stepped a timid undergraduate in the University's School of Architecture to name himself and 25 fellow-students as senders of the "bomb." Haled into court to face charges of disorderly conduct, the 25 students sheepishly explained that they had merely wanted to have some fun, pointed out that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted...
...feeling of scorn swept the bicycling world upon the announcement, for such action seems unnecessary in the light of present-day conditions. At Yale, at Princeton, at Oxford, and at Cambridge, students and faculty members ride where they please. At Wellesley and Smith, timid old ladies show no outward fear as bicycles glide silently by them...
Eddie Cantor's newest vehicle is a variegated whirlwind of good music, original dance arrangements, and exciting comedy plot. Taken from Clarence Buddington Kelland's Satevepost story "Dreamland," "Strike Me Pink" shows the Timid Soul, Mr. Pink (Cantor, of course) in his adventures fighting Crime in an Amusement park...
...have often wondered why "Kitty" put on such a show, especially before undergraduates. Perhaps it was the eccentricity of genius or the satisfaction of an innate dramatic instinct, but to me it seemed that "Kitty" was essentially a shy and timid man and that his "act" was a kind of defense mechanism...