Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaking for those whom we represent, we respectfully request prompt reconsideration and earnest support of the proposed appropriation. Otherwise the questions inevitably arise. First, Does the Treasury Department sincerely desire efficient enforcement? Second, Is it unable to develop an adequate program...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
...Debevoise] have never visited a refinery or sales station or producing property of the company. Nor outside of one or two officers or directors do they know a person in the entire organization. The present prosperity of this company has not just happened; it is the result of earnest, loyal work and toil from the board of directors to office boys." Increasingly, during the last two years, have Standard Oil of Indiana and Standard Oil of New Jersey become competitors, invaded each other's territory both in the U. S. and abroad. The New Jersey company is a Rockefeller...
...erroneous U. S. impression that Soviet housewives have no servants was corrected, last week, by earnest, diligent Commissar of Health Nikolai A. Semashko in somewhat startling fashion. With the total candor of an authentic savant, Comrade Semashko stated...
...reminded of this by an earnest attack upon young Yale men contributed by Henry F. Pringle to the current "Harper's." Mr. Pringle paints an appalling picture of the attitude of the young men who sing "For God, for country and for Yale." They are, it appears, "on the make." Before going to college they begin looking for prominent roommates; at college they arise at 5 o'clock in the morning to seek advertising for "The Yale News," and they spend their week ends on Long Island and Park Avenue, ostensibly dancing with debutantes but really seeking the acquaintance...