Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office in West 22nd Street, where the basement is jammed with part of Crusader Comstock's 61 carloads of assorted obscenity. He strove cheerfully to administer well the $15,000 per annum supplied him by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Colgate (soap) family, Thomas Alva Edison and other earnest souls. He concentrated his efforts upon enforcing Section 1141 of New York's penal code, a famed paragraph lobbied through by the whiskered subject of the Suppression office's chief portrait. He suppressed Jurgen, famed allegory by James Branch Cabell. He did quite well until 1919 when...
...meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader's sympathy is meant to go to crippled, homely, honest Elena. But Elena is more shrewish than shrewd. Her experiments with new religions are wan and woeful. The backgrounds -Manhattan...
...Rocky Mountain News started it, an expensive but cunning stroke in the war for readers and advertising that has raged in Denver ever since the Scripps-Howard interests started to compete in earnest with "Napoleon of the Jackrabbits," Gambler-Publisher Fred G. Bonfils of the Denver Post (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week the Scripps-Howard men offered a gallon of gasoline free to anyone inserting a "want ad" in their morning News editions. Publisher Bonfils, irked, ordered a counterstroke and his Post (the morning edition lately established to oppose the morning News), swaggered: "You can't stop us, by cracky...
...Earnest Democrats commented that the Democratic Party would be soon dead if McAdooing and McUndooing continued...
Holding the esteemed position that he does, the presidency of one of the oldest and most dignified institutions for higher education in America, President Lowell could not help but be aware of the unlimited treasures which may be unearthed by any earnest college student. He realizes that the majority of college educations are not wasted, although there be many misfits in the advanced educational palaces of today, and consequently he does not, as some may claim, attempt to repel the surging wave of American youth into the colleges, professional and technical schools which may or may not be anxious...