Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intervals across the Atlantic. Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object of aviation, speed should be sacrificed for the sake of safety...
Busch informs the squeamish American race that it "seems unable to appreciate the artistic honesty of director Schwarz...
...blood is spilled, but there is little laughter and no love interest. The appeal is partly to the mind and partly to the pit of the stomach. The latter appeal may be overwhelming in isolated cases. Instances of internal rising and active nausea have been reported by the severely squeamish...
...today, where Mr. Lawrence spent long months before climbing to a remote New Mexico mountain to write in bearded solitude. The pages are full of that Laurentian physico-mysticism, that preoccupation with endodermal emanations, the abdominal brain and sex pyschology, that moves many profoundly, puzzles others, and revolts the squeamish. The main characters are three: Kate Leslie, a sensitive Irish widow who has fulfilled her young womanhood and egotistically put it behind her; Don Ramon, Quetzalcoatl's triumphantly masculine semi-Indian high priest; and Don Cipriano, "a little fighting male" of European extraction, to whom Kate submits the new womanhood...
...British press variously described the trial as "a blow to liberty" (Laborite Daily Herald) and "a victory for civilization" (Conservative Morning Post). Between these two extremes, the Westminster Gazette took occasion to lament that a whiff of politics was undoubtedly apparent to squeamish noses at the trial, and quoted: "It is not enough that justice should be done-it must appear to be justice...