Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely had the echoes of this achievement died down when two veteran Italian aviators turned to the record business in earnest. Captain Arturo Ferrarin, 32-year-old War veteran, pilot of bombers and pursuit planes, was a member of the victorious 1926 Schneider Cup team. Major Carlo P. Delprete accompanied Commander Francesco de Pinedo on his tour of the Americas in 1927. No tyros, these two airmen chose a thick-winged Savoia-Marchetti monoplane, set out to break the endurance record won for the U. S. by Stinson and Haldeman. They remained in the air 58 hours and 34 minutes...
From the speech-making at the convention of the American Institute of Banking, earnest assistant cashiers culled these thoughts...
Fazil. Charles Farrell is a capable cinemactor, particularly in the role of an earnest young man. But here he is greased up like the late Rudolph Valentino and made to register Arabian passion under the erogenous name of Prince Fazil. The also warm Greta Nissen, as a Parisian blonde called Fabienne, spends many film feet in his arms and on his lips-be the place Paris or Venice or the desert sands. They get married, quarrel, make up, etc. And finally, DEATH-Prince Fazil, mortally wounded by bandits, takes off his poison ring and lovingly punctures the white finger...
...prove that Harvard graduating classes make an earnest effort to keep in touch with the younger generation the Class of 1903, as a feature of its twenty-fifth reunion this month, will entertain 350 children of members of the class at an assembly at the Hotel Rockmere, Marblehead, on June...
...American girlhood. She snatches her bandit by the hand, slips the guard, and makes for the sea, casting off garments by the way. Easily they swim to her yacht, and soon are steaming down the coast to safety. The last hours of the night they spend in chaste though earnest conversation on deck, and at dawn he leaves...