Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a squeamish U. S. citizen believes that a Chinese can live on what an Occidental throws away, suspects that Chinese business establishments ? notably chop suey restaurants and laundries?are unsanitary. Caucasian aversion to Chinese hygiene entered a business quarrel which reached New York City's courts fortnight...
Germans, like Austrians, are less squeamish than Americans in trying new processes on human beings. Promptly Dr. Swick got some human urological cases, injected the drug in their veins, got excellent pictures of their urinary systems. But the patients almost went blind...
...drab, mechanical, unconvincing ?in short, not so well done as they might be?read The Glass Key and have your suspicion confirmed. Defenders of the old-line detective story might object that The Glass Key is less a detective than a crime story. But whether you are a squeamish voyager among books or so hardened that the roaring forties seem like the doldrums, this book will be a portent and a welcome...
...some booksellers within the past year. Such dictatorial acts as the suppression of the numbers of Scribners containing certain installments of "A Farewell to Arms" will probably not be repeated, but it is too much to be hoped that the censors, self-appointed or otherwise, will ever overcome their squeamish morals and susceptibility to shock sufficiently to make them representative of the average reader...
...secret vexation to many doctors is the free medical service they give. It is a thing they are squeamish about discussing in public. Only when one acquires a public position does he occasionally talk. Thus last week Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, 46, Manhattan surgeon, made of his inauguration as president of the New York County Medical Society-important component of the American Medical Association-a megaphone for the old professional grievance...