Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy. At one end of the anti-Prohibition fighting line stood those who favored outright repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of prohibitory powers, if any, to the States. Wet opinion shaded down through vague forms of modification and foxy redeterm-nations of "non-intoxicating" formulae to the timid "beer-&-light-wine" pleas at the other end of the line. Result: the Wet ranks moved forward obliquely, with one flank far in advance of the other...
...story of tragedy and cowardice. Despite the vivid dialog of Joseph Moncure (The Wild Party) March who wrote swear words for the actors in defiance of cinema custom, the story seemed inexpert. It told of two British brothers flying against Germany. At the climax the brave brother shot the timid brother to keep him from telling British army secrets to the Germans. There was also a love story which ended when the girl got drunk and plunged into the arms of another man, also drunk. Ben Lyon, as the timid brother, acted best. Discounting its less efficient elements the picture...
...future great, must we forget one who, through his name has never, to my knowledge, headed a Commencement program, has none the less in his humble way played as important and as unforgetable a part in our carefree college years as many of more worthy note. He first, when timid freshmen, bid us a kindly welcome, and now, as we depart, adds softly a good wish for our success. Fellow students, June eighth is Max Keezer's birthday. He will be sixty-two. "I'm getting old, you know," says Max. He may be getting...
...found out they could sell more cloth if they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge football men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubtless spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without hats will shortly have the pleasure of making their flapper friends feel at home in the subway...
Hanover, N. H., May 15.--Despite the cold weather that rather rudely descended down upon Hanover today a goodly number of the Dartmouth college students continued to wear their short pants today and walked about the streets bare legged. Some of the more timid souls resorted back to the conventional long pants but the staunch supporters of the movement could not be frozen...