Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued his love-at-first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with the ferocious parent...
...inhospitable as China. Barely a year had elapsed since that patient bird spread its wings over what was hoped to be a united nation under the banking regime. But last week the news dispatches carried the old story--the dragons of war have broken loose again and frightened the timid creature back to its Geneva sanctuary. The details are not unusual. A defeated general raises an army; a force sent to suppress him revolts; rebellion flares up in another place and before long civil war is raging once more...
Contrary to lore snakes do not attack humans wantonly. They are lazy and timid and do not strike unless hurt or threatened with hurt. Exceptions are the African mamba, the Malayan King, the bushmaster of the tropics, and cascavel (a rattler) of Central America. A coach whip will sometimes follow a man. But it is only curious, and will speed away if threatened...
...oaken door of the Franciscan monastery at Gorheim, in the principality of Hohenzollern, faltered one morning a timid knock. The monk who answered found a cringing wretch there, broken with years of suffering: He identified himself as a onetime Colonel of the Kaiser's armies, personal friend of the Crown Prince, who had led his regiment gallantly to France. But a sense of guilt for his part in war obsessed him, and now he sought to make penitential amends, following the example of the gentle St. Francis of Assisi...
...Birthday, Dec. 28), eulogized the War President, made no award of Foundation funds for distinguished 1928 achievement in "meritorious service to democracy, public welfare, liberal thoughts, or peace through justice." Wilsonians found no outstanding merit in the Kellogg-Briand peace plan, which they termed "a weak thing . . . timid imitation . . . mere shadow of Wilson's great conception...