Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Native sentiment for independence is politically organized and vocal, but not conclusively a majority. Opposition to independence is large, timid, unorganized. Politics is a big local industry which has outstripped economics. The islands are not yet ripe for freedom. They need economic development. It would be bad enough to turn them loose in good times but immediate independence during Depression would be their ruin...
...From timid beginnings the Carnegie show has now evolved into what is probably the most important showing of modernist pictures in the U. S. The Carnegie International no longer considers itself an agency for the discovery of unknown talent. Director Homer Saint-Gaudens and his associates have decided that there are plenty of other organizations dedicated to that purpose, that their job is to show the citizens of Pittsburgh the work of the best artists that they can assemble. This year in an exhibition of nearly 500 pictures only 30 places were left open for unsolicited works...
...which this event does not even occur can be classed as a literary phenomenon. Albert Grope is a phenomenal book in other respects also. It deals in the mood and vernacular of Victorian fiction, with the humble upbringing and start in the world of a commercially enterprising but socially timid late-century Cockney Londoner. The hero, speaking in the first person, describes events preceding by 20 years his recording of them. But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style...
...many a row to hoe before he became head gardener. Son of an almost violently religious naturalist, he was teethed on doctrine but never got nearer the kingdom of heaven on earth than working a brief, unhappy while in one of Dr. Barnardo's London orphanages. A timid and touchy man, Gosse was not cut out to be a good mixer with the masses. He got a job in the cataloguing section of the British Museum, became successively London agent for U. S. Publisher Scribner, lecturer at Cambridge, Librarian of the House of Lords. Gosse, who loved the peerage...
...time for rosy fantasies," he added. "... And even more emphatically it is no time for the lugubrious whimperings of those timid souls who see nothing but despair ahead. ... It is high time we segregate . . . the advocates of our retirement from the foreign field in the interests of our hard-pressed rivals overseas 'who need trade more than we do.' Perhaps for the purposes of identification we might decorate those noble-hearted altruists with the Grand Order of the Yellow Streak, while the rest of our more brazenly acquisitive tradesmen, with a full recognition of the gravity of the situation, turn...