milquetoast

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Today, the pair stand as timely avatars of our contemporary crises — Wally the Milquetoast and André the Pedant, chronically overthinking about overthinking.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2021

Webster, an influential early-20th-century cartoonist of vaudevillian characters like Caspar Milquetoast.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2021

Milquetoast greeting card writer Erwin Trowbridge gets into a fight with his wife, Audrey, and wanders into a bar, where he meets three gamblers who appreciate his knack for picking winning horses.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019

Musgraves is an urbane, smart-mouthed maverick who’s butted cheerfully up against country orthodoxies—it takes a pretty ham-handed production team to set her up like Molly Milquetoast.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2014

The timid soul; a pictorial account of the life and times of Casper Milquetoast, with an introd. by Ring Lardner. © 23Mar31; A36071.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office