Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealthy young clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...
...siren screeched in the U. S. Treasury Building in Washington. Timid clerks rushed into the corridors, craned quaking necks. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey was irked. He had ordered all employes to remain in their offices when the burglar siren sounded, so that guns could sweep the corridors clear of thugs, bandits, etc. Last week's screech was only a test case...
...Coward" is derived from Old French roots meaning "short-tailed," from the analogy of the timid short-tailed rabbit and the dog which makes its tail less prominent in fear...
...called Facts of Life, such as cigarettes and harsh language fall violently on the timid souls of the gentlemen who are engineering the present day reforms. Crushed by the evident and inevitable, they rise in their might and throw off the onus and destroy it utterly, stifling it on the front pages of the tabloids, and all lest some spirit now tender and sweet as the violet become aware of these things and grow up into a cauliflower, or something else far removed from violets...
Worshipful, gallant, yet timid withal...