Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conclusive proof of this lies strewn over the recent newspapers and echoes through the lecture halls: the Teachers' Oath Bill. The teaching profession in Massachusetts was badly hipped because it was utterly incapable of looking after its own interests. Certainly regulation by papers is preferable to that imposed by timid little boys wearing paper caps of red, white, and blue bunting. It is too early to pass judgment on the merits of the Teachers' Union. But it is high time to consider it as a means of providing the defense becoming increasingly necessary...
...Dick's father--Lewis Stone -- delivers several inspirational speeches and in general occupies himself by smiling through tears. Koss Alexander is amusing; he and various other Naval Academy cadets exhibit fellowship, loyalty, and navy spirit at all times. the effect of the picture is in general to reassure timid souls that the U. S. navy watches over them night and day and that the world is still safe for love and sentiment. Nevertheless, Ms. Bel Scott's brief appearance on the stage is ample compensation even for "Shipmates Forever...
...Salute (Reliance). The inability of Hollywood producers to deal with contemporary political and social problems is only less painfully exhibited by their customary reluctance to try it than by their timid stupidity when they do. In Red Salute, Producer Edward Small was patently under the impression that, by making the villain of the piece a campus radical, he was hurling an intellectual bombshell of some sort at the U. S. cinema public. The picture's release at the Rivoli Theatre in Manhattan last week actually caused a disturbance at which 18 adolescents were arrested for wagging idiotic handbills...
...increase of $2,700,000,000 since the dollar was devalued last year and not far short of one-half the world's supply. From the recondite records of the Federal Reserve System it was evident that little if any of the timid capital was seeking real investment. The funds were merely adding to the money glut by increasing excess member bank reserves, already amounting to $2,800,000,000. If bankers could find borrowers, those reserves would permit an expansion of credit to ten times $2,800,000,000 and create a boom that would dwarf...
...seems less aware of its grotesqueness, its humor, and its influence on the course of democratic government. As a result the two brief chapters in The Education of Henry Adams remain the best summary of Grant's limitations. In himself Grant seemed to contain several distinct personalities: 1) the timid man who could not refuse a gift or disappoint a friend; 2) the general who would not lose a battle; 3) the ignorant countryman who thought Venice would be a fine city if only it were drained; 4) the energetic administrator who habitually relaxed, when energy was most needed, into...