Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last year they were $129,120. Naturally Mrs. Vanderbilt wanted to get rid of it. Last year she secured a court order permitting her to sell it for $7,100,000. A syndicate had offered to purchase it at that price. They put down $500,000 as earnest money. In the syndicate were G. Maurice Heckscher, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Mrs. Vanderbilt, Leonard Replogle of the steel company of that name, Colonel Henry F. Lindsley, banker and former Mayor of Dallas, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., member of the U. S. polo team in the last international matches...
...now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself (1916-22), and the Liberal feud began in earnest. Latterly this once great party has declined to political insignificance. Last week Asquithians and Georgians vociferated over an issue of molehill stature which they erected into a Liberal mountain...
...immediate followers for some time to come. The French Resident General in Morocco, M. Jules Steeg, therefore received with the greatest suspicion last week a message from Krim suing for immediate peace. Not until some 300 French and Spanish prisoners had been freed by the Riffi as an earnest of good faith, did the French seriously prepare to receive the surrender of Krim in person. Then a rumor spread that a majority of his adherents, frightened by the Franco-Spanish advance, had shown signs of turning upon their leader; had driven him to anticipate their change of heart by throwing...
...business professional and opportunity for the students, are the alumni group as a recruiting agents for securing a more earnest and more intelligent student body, and most of all by developing a system of an education to raise the whole cultural of American social life in their community...
...cook, intrigued, threw many a meat scrap. The eagle, unwary, flew farther and farther seaward?followed the Sulanierco 20 miles with ease, 10 more by settling down to earnest purposeful flapping, 10 more by resorting to tricks of volplaning and wind-catching, 10 more with every tendon of its great wings strained by the torturing, racking effort...