Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quinn--or Shea or Russell or Robart--for Mayor" replaces "I do not choose to run in 1928" as the up-to-date decoration of local automobiles. Torchlight parades give the Square a ghoulish light, as hundreds of horns send their echoes across the Yard. Earnest students in Widener scowl, and wonder vaguely what it is all about. It is the first Cambridge political campaign in many years that has caused them to speculate...
...monotonous discussion of architect's plans for the building of a new home for the League. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand dozed, snored, awoke, fidgeted. Suddenly he sat upright, waved to German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to follow him outside. Both statesmen arose. M. Briand annoyed the earnest delegates by knocking over a chair and received their concentrated glare for his clumsiness...
...gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand and led her to the door.' There she raised an outcry...
...city manager movement, conceived the idea, last year, "that city managers generally are so engrossed in their own problems that they have little time to work out solutions of new problems of administration." Dr. Hatton went to Rochester, N. Y. and told his idea to George Eastman, rich and earnest friend of better city government...
...what type of man would most attract such a young woman (remember, she is earnest, honest)? Well, how about a mature, reticent, adventure-scarred world traveler. He should be enormously courageous, enormously patriotic; should have passed through incredible (almost) adventures and come out enormously modest?and of course unmarried. Let's see? the times are getting so Elizabethan?perhaps he ought to be so thoroughly a man of action that he swears occasionally and, yes, has had to know women, very wicked ones, in the course of his thrilling duty. His name could be Dessiter ? Colonel Dessiter. It might...