Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chemistry 2a is an introductory course in organic chemistry. Do not let this frighten you away. For those timid and unassuming souls who shy from all things new and unexperienced, this organic stuff means only that the course has limited itself to the study of carbon and its compounds. True, there are more than a few compounds in this field. That too, should not frighten you for Professor Fieser does a splendid job of "essential plucking...
Those two amiable wage Stuart Erwin and Skeets Gallagter, make "Bachelor Bait" very amusing. It is the story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
Chipper Japanese officers said when they came ashore: "Our naval exercises are part of a program which necessarily places control of the approaches of North China with the Japanese fleet." When timid Chinese newsorgans murmured that Japan's war games were interfering with Chinese shipping, the Japanese commander snorted "Ridiculous...
...Rhymster, an experience which he compares to that of the youthful Keats on first looking into Chapman's Homer. Free verse and bizarre modern forms get short shrift from Rhymster Braley. The critics, in his opinion, know nothing about professional writing. And editors are a bad-mannered, incompetent, timid, unreliable lot of numbskulls with "more taboos than a South African savage...
Friends of Mr. Sweeney (Warner). Asaph Holliday (Charles Ruggles), hero of this picture, is a journalistic guppy, small, ashamed and ludicrous, writing timid editorials in a journal of opinion called The Balance. When his old college mate, Rixey (Eugene Pallette), arrives in town, a change takes place in Asaph. He calls up his assistant (Ann Dvorak) and orders her to come to dinner. At a swank night club, to which he gains admittance by saying to the doorman "We are friends of Mr. Sweeney," he gambles coolly with $1,000 chips under the impression that they cost $1. Finally, with...