Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the voyage, slight, sensitive Photographer Gregg Toland's camera is turned on the seamen who inhabit the forecastle-a burly, brawling Irishman (Thomas Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken...
...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...
...began, with the note of urgency. Our delays, our interminable debates, our lack of realism and fore sight, our factional differences and suspicions, our subordination of the national safety to timid political calculations, are being watched with contemptuous amusement by our enemies. This is precisely what they have predicted of what they call plutocratic democracy, or decadent liberalism," Perry concluded...
...well--the popular conception of registration day at a big college. You've seen it in the movies, perhaps, or read it in the magazines. There are always some aloof, self-confident seniors, a middle group of rowdy juniors and sophomores, and then the great mass of freshmen, timid and unsure of themselves. It would be hard to convince the scenario and pulp writers that there is anything wrong with this picture, but if you look closely in the Yard this weekend, you may discover that it isn't entirely accurate. Of course, you Freshmen will be there, feeling...
...have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when Sid Grauman, still unsatisfied, sneaked up from behind and bore down (see cut). Bedaubed & bewildered, Barrymore cursed, was still digging concrete from his ear when he left...