Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business tax, or a subway tax, but there's lots of fun in a lottery because every ticket buyer has a right to dream of winning. . . . We hope that Mayor LaGuardia, who has shown plenty of guts in the past, will not be frightened by the squeamish squawks he's hearing now from clergymen and others. . . . The same people now squawking against the lottery are those who said public sentiment was against Repeal, and then were proved so very wrong when the votes were counted...
...most squeamish situations in which one can find oneself is to be compelled to pass judgment on public officials who are members of one's own party, on the basis of a record which is none too glorious...
...SMALL WORLD-Walter Bodin & Burnet Hershey-Coward-McCann ($3). In the 18th Century it was quite the thing to visit Bedlam, London's lunatic asylum, to have a hearty laugh at its mad inmates. Twentieth-Centuryites are more squeamish, but they still pay good money to circus sideshows to see grown men and women whose under-functioning pituitary glands have made midgets. For those who cannot or will not attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between...
Only requirement for use of the stream is a State fishing license. Women who are squeamish about handling worms will not be sorry that fly fishing alone is permitted. On hand to teach them the art is a State warden of their own sex. She is Edith A. Stoeher, 27, a husky, genial sportswoman who breeds English setters on her farm near South Wethersfield, likes to hunt, fish, trapshoot. Last fortnight, in a field test with four other applicants for the job, she proved her skill with rod & reel, her knowledge of flies, knots, trout. Publisher Beck expects...
Goethe. Only ultra-squeamish Goethe admirers belittle the major fact that from early youth to ripe old age Goethe drew what he called his inspiration from a series of women, very few of whom were intellectual and only one of whom he married (17 years after their child was born). Eleven of Goethe's women are named by the Encyclopedia Britannica which emphasizes that he had many another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius...