Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amherst played straight and earnest football to beat Williams, 20 to 6, for the championship of the "Little Three." Strack of the Oklahoma Aggies, still the only undefeated team of the Missouri Valley Conference, did a good share of the work that beat Grinnell...
...high comedy by commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt for the parliamentarians Pilsudski called off his troops, last week, retired into his palace, brooded upon whether to take in deadly earnest the jest of Opposition news organs which satirically hailed him as: "PILSUDSKI AUGUSTUS, IMPERATOR...
...Examiner and New York American, he found what "news" the gum-chewers of his country will swallow. Then, the New York Daily News, first of the tabloids, was started by the two rich, hard-boiled publishers of the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Medill Patterson, Robert R. McCormick. Mr. Payne, an earnest, bespectacled Puck, was invited to become an assistant editor. He rose to fame as the Daily News leaped upward to the highest circulation in the U. S. Last year, Publisher Hearst, who had grabbed Arthur Brisbane from the World 30 years ago, lured Philip Payne to the Daily Mirror. Many...
Because gum-chewers smack their lips loudly over this kind of thing, literate people are confronted by prodigious bales of newsprint upon the sexual and mental Aberrations of some commonplace people. In the office of the Daily Mirror, an earnest, bespectacled Puck dreams of other crusades...
...went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient in earnest. Beside the problems of defense, Japan is faced with the eventual necessity of seeking new outlets for her population. Even if these be won by military conquest, on the adjacent continent the Occidental powers must be prevented from interfering by the warboats of Japan...