Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...
...absurd and temperamental pair, a burden though a source of merriment to the girl's bewildered mother. The situation in this little group became tense with the arrival of Claudia Kitts, friend to Janet, and foolish Edgar Fuller, Geoffrey's visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass at Claudia. Not until her hitherto unmentioned husband arrives upon the scene, thereby precipitating...
...kongari, eland, impalla, buffalo, zebra, came in turns to drink. Also the rare okapi. They respect and stand aside for the conceited and preening ostrich of the deadly kick. Zebra snap and fight among themselves continuously. Giraffes, "the creatures God forgot," wander about nervously nibbling at the trees too timid even to drink. Defenseless against his fatal leap, they are the favorite food of Simba, the lion...
Together they drafted a telegram as timid as the position of Tcheng Loh is delicate. Transmitted through the League Secretariat, this message reached Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary in the following form: ". . . The Council of the League, having before it a request from the Czechoslovak, Jugoslav and Rumanian Governments and having learned from the press that the Hungarian Government is going to sell the objects to which the request refers, thinks it would be prudent to delay this project, the matter involved coming before the Council in a few days...
Those who are amused to see crude and rather unattractive old men making love to snappy young widows and suffering all the tribulations that are entailed in making themselves appropriately presentable; and those who enjoy seeing simple-minded, timid, young gentlemen involving themselves with innocent but ardent young ladies, saving the day finally through sheer dumbness, acquiring a few millions for themselves into the bargain, should go to see Bronson Howard's "The New Henrietta", at the Repertory Theatre this week...