Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote: "The producers still talk of restricting production by cooperative action, though for 50 years their every attempt along this line has proven futile. . . . Apparently, chaos reigns?but not so. The law of the survival of the fittest continues to operate uninterruptedly, and the fittest are, as usual, earnest in the argument that there should be no other law. The large companies become larger. The small become smaller. The day of the individual producer is passing. The survivors of the struggle will enjoy happier times...
...University of Iowa has just organized a school of religion in which earnest men will strive to teach religion as a dynamic force in life, rather than as a matter of creed, tenets, rites, thaumaturgy or priestcraft. At this aim, endorsed by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, the Presbyterian, "an official organ of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," last week scoffed...
...recently apologized to the world for the Lampoon's latest lapse from virtue, can now introduce the paper without hesitation to their clients in the sensitive rural communities of New Jersey. President Fawcett and Ibis Jones' are little Dutch girls. They chase dirt. They are obviously leading an earnest crusade to make the Lampoon as pure and respectable as it was in its age of innocence...
...earnest of the tribulations soon to beset promoters of the Congress came last week, when Lieutenant Colonel James Porter Fiske of Post No. 1 American Legion gave out an interview: "Legionnaires and their families who come to the Convention should all be inoculated for typhoid before leaving the U. S. . . . Even so they should drink only bottled mineral water in Paris. ... To guard against ptomaine poisoning they should be extremely careful to eat only selected food...
...dish of canned melodrama. The heroine is forced by poverty and misunderstanding, from one man's bosom to another's, thereby irritating her husband into catastrophic petulance. He does his beastly best, poor fellow, in the third act, never realizing that deep down she loved him always. "Earnest but crude," said generous critics...