Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly the newsvendors thought this pleasantry excruciating. When decorum was at last restored. Lord Lee said, in dead earnest: "It would be foolish to pretend that at this moment all is as well as it should be or as it has been between England and America. But as one who has been in charge of the British Admiralty's policy and a member of the Cabinet, it seems to me that there is much that is unreal, even absurd, in this naval controversy...
...slowly mounted the rostrum and then stood mopping his bald head, amid the rattle of handclaps and the roar of "Hoch! Hoch! HOCH!" Dr. Stresemann seemed paler than usual but otherwise utterly "the typical German," plump, correct and full of earnest energy. He, the smart son of a rich brewer, is the great Foreign Minister who has held office while eight German cabinets have fallen, and his ailing kidneys are those which have been of vital interest to all Europe for half a year...
From time to time tentative attempts toward reconciliation with the Establishment were made. Abuses by the secular authority having virtually ceased, and the leaders of the United Free Church having grown somewhat less stiff and proud, negotiations were resumed in earnest...
...tomorrow the fruit of earnest conferences, intricate bookkeeping, and subtle diplomacy will drop dead ripe into the lap of many an undergraduate. From the man who makes a four hour glide to New Haven in his Packard to the seven passengers of an especially resurrected 1920 Ford all have spent a considerable time in a contemplation of ways and means...
...pledge to President-elect Herbert Hoover the untiring support and earnest prayers of Methodists throughout the land to the end that the will of the people directed against the age-old evil of drink shall prevail...