Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife and the want of a son darkened his horizon. The mouselike wife saw, and left him that he might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with lust. That feckless wench gave him a son, but left him with ruin from her extravagance and his land debauched from...
...length a timid Communist piped: "I think this measure would be justified only if Italy were at war." From the tribune Il Benito looked down, far down: "I consider the Italian nation in a permanent state of war! ... I consider the next five or ten years decisive for the future of our nation, because international competition is growing ever keener. . . . Even as controversies are not permitted at the front in wartime, so now we must realize the maximum national efficiency...
...creative imagination of today has cast off the shackles of our timid middle-class culture. It sees and feels a new America-an America of steel and stone, of dynamos and blast furnaces. It sets itself to discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that...
...Coolidge himself is an estimable man, who personally would be glad to make some sort of a move, but he is timid, with his ear always to the ground, afraid of public opinion, which, when watching European affairs, is completely uninstructed in America. So, it seems, that Europe need not expect much from America except the usual duns about debts and loans on profitable terms to Americans...
...should like to be allowed to put in a timid plea that some of the profits of Stadium Common, or Bowl Bonds, or Pigskin Preferred, which under the reign of a competent coach would be considerable, be paid in to the University for strictly educational purposes...