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A milquetoast is a weak, ineffectual person. It is derived from the character Caspar Milquetoast from the comic strip The Timid Soul . The word may also refer to: •Milquetoast the Cockroach, a cha...
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He was the original Caspar Milquetoast — literally. Caspar Milquetoast was his name, and anybody else who ever used it, got it from him. ... Mr. Milquetoast was never pushy enough to get into movies and stuff except slightly, sort of, he did it in a Caspar Milquetoast kind of way.
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Caspar Milquetoast definition by Dictionary of sex terms and "F" word, contains sex terms, definitions, synonyms, and quotations. ... Caspar Milquetoast:; Comic-strip character created by Harold Tucker Webster (1885-1952), the caricature of a timid, meek, unassertive, mild-mannered, overly proper,
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Profile of Harold Tucker Webster (H.T.), the creator of Caspar Milquetoast. As a very young man Webster took a job on the Denver Post, which was then owned by Harry H. Tammen and Fred G. Bonfils. Tammen was an ex-bartender who had prospered in Denver by setting up a ... ABSTRACT: Profile of Harold Tucker Webster (H.T.), The two men,
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Caspar milquetoast - Definition of Caspar milquetoast at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Caspar milquetoast. Look it up now! ... Use caspar milquetoast in a Sentence...
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, in which he introduced to the world the painfully shy character, Caspar Milquetoast. ... Years later, Webster described Mr. Milquetoast as "the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick"... That other Mr. Webster, the one who makes dictionaries, confirms that the word "milquetoast", meaning a very shy or...
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It’s an eponym, named after a fictional cartoon character named Caspar Milquetoast, invented by the American illustrator Harold T Webster in 1924. The strip was called The Timid Soul and appeared every Sunday in the New York Herald Tribune up to his death in 1953. Mr Webster said that his character was “the man...
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He'd rather look at the column holding up the museum's celing, than an abstract statue that the guide book says is of a nude. He was the original Caspar Milquetoast - literally. Caspar Milquetoast was his name, and anybody else who ever used it, got it from him.
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Whatever has turned the log of them into a bunch of Caspar Milquetoasts is something they better resolve in a hurry and bet to work saving our country.
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