Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the first two-thirds of the picture, Eddie Cantor, as Eddie Pink, a timid amusement-park manager embroiled with slot-machine racketeers, gives a fair imitation of Chaplin's famed characterization of a peewee battling gaily against overwhelming destiny. The last third of the picture is a chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats...
...university need not squirm because one of its professors publicly opposes the pet policy of seedy politicians who immodestly call themselves statesmen. A radical, wild-eyed communist does not enhance the reputation of his Alma Mater, but on the other hand the timid scholar who buries himself and his wisdom in dusky library stacks likewise does little in this direction. Professors who state their candid opinions clearly and back them up with sensible arguments certainly are not "agitators...
...remainder of the ballots are pretty evenly distributed between Flash Gordon and his rocket gun, Blondie and her troublesome babe and husband, Webster's Timid Soul, and daring detective Dick Tracy. Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, must content himself with being the choice of a single...
...evening the Sullivans walked around the corner from their Wyoming Avenue home to the Hoovers' house on S Street, helped entertain the Hoover friends. When, in 1929, the Hoovers moved to the big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, the intimacy continued. Never have President and journalist been closer. Timid and distrustful of newshawks in general. President Hoover put Pundit Sullivan in his "Medicine Ball Cabinet," had him to breakfasts, took him on fishing trips,* called him often to the White House for long, confidential talks. Result was that Mark Sullivan became, to other Washington correspondents' envy and chagrin...
...Rabbi Samuel Schulman of Manhattan: The common sense of the people is bewildered by the tremendous increase of the expense of government. . . . The business sense of the people is timid. . . . The sense of the American people for the spiritual values of the American heritage is disquieted. There is a feeling that we are drifting from the spirit of American institutions...