Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mounted on wheels and driven by one Paul C. Brown of Oklahoma City coasted down a 1,181-ft. hill and knocked him and his assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
Born in Arpinum in 106 B.C., Cicero was a "new man," an upstart and outsider, belonging to the mercantile class that stood between the nobility and the commons. Thin, long-necked, timid, wearying friends by overpraising himself, Cicero made a poor hero. Academic Dr. Richards considers his lifelong hesitancy a sign of devotion to the Roman Republic. But readers may feel, on the strength of Dr. Richards' account, that Cicero simply could not make up his mind where he stood in the issue of democracy v. dictatorship. He had a yes-and-no policy on the soldiers' bonus...
...save him from public obloquy, gave the Press a statement bearing his name, expressing his horror. Not until next morning did Mr. Garner hear the news. In all innocence he wired Franklin Roosevelt that he had not heard of the attempt upon his life until that moment. †The timid, fumbling, impotent Vice President, as played by Victor Moore in Of Thee I Sing (TIME...
Hitler Purge. A timid 9-year-old Manhattan boy translated his unconscious fear & hatred of his domineering father, a Jewish bank president, into a puerile fear & hatred of Adolf Hitler. Dr. John Levy of Manhattan gave the boy toy soldiers, boats and wooden figures and told him to imagine himself the Protector of the Jews. The boy organized a mimic expedition which captured and executed "Adolf Hitler." That made the boy believe himself bold & powerful, purged him of his fear & hatred of his father...
...back they fell to quarreling with the taxi driver over his charge for waiting time. As Representative Cannon later remembered it, the driver wanted $15. The driver said he asked for $6, whereupon his beery fares cursed, threatened to beat him up. Timid, the driver sped to police headquarters, charged his fares with intoxication & disorderly conduct. Police kept them in a cell until 5 a. m. Released on $15 bail, which he promptly forfeited, Representative Cannon issued a statement: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . ." Among artists made jobless by the closing of Manhattan...