Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German people should desert us, that will not restrain us!" he roared in a Berlin speech which timid Press censors first suppressed. "Whatever happens we will take the course that is necessary to save Germany from ruin!" ¶ In Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) 24 provincial governors and police chiefs "suspect of Republicanism" were ousted and replaced by reactionary government supporters such as Nazi Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, appointed Chief of Police of Berlin. Next day Prussian police started confiscating the passports of such famed Liberals & Pacifists as Hellmuth von Gerlach, thus cooping them in Germany...
...plan was put into effect without serious obstacles. The number of students concentrating in these subjects did, indeed, diminish, the weaker of more timid seeking departments where no such examination barred the way; out that was no harm, and proved to be in large part a temporary effect. The preparing of examination questions, which had been supposed very difficult, was exceedingly well done by an able committee. Yet the plan was not at once wholly successful. Tutorial work was new, and men equipped for it were not to be found. They had to learn the art by their own experience...
...donors so as to exclude them. Despite an apparent futility, the CRIMSON wishes to reiterate that stand, and to maintain further, in view of subsequent events, that a courageous expression of opinion would have reflected far more honor upon the Corporation than a policy which has sought, by its timid half-steps, to appease or to delude possible criticism...
Tenor Tito Schipa, who sang leading roles with the Chicago Civic Opera Company until it disbanded last spring (TIME, July 4), appeared in L'Elisir d'Amore as the timid rustic who gets tipsy on a love potion taken to help him win the village belle. Schipa was not so slapstick in the role as Tenor Gigli, whom he is replacing. His voice is lighter. But he sings Italian arias with the old-fashioned sentiment which the galleries adore...
...blue & white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern unravel their amatory knots to everyone's satisfaction, send their audience home with a sense of benign gratification. Best tunes: naive...