Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open secret that various and opulent magnates of California have bargained unsuccessfully for the Kim rights for many years. Mr. Kipling displayed an unaccountable indifference?no matter how much cash their earnest faces registered...
...Midnight Alarm. Truly life according to the movies is real and very earnest. The little girl involved in these adventures is orphaned, loved by a fireman, hated by a stockbroker, locked in the broker's office safe while the office building burns, saved by the fireman with an acetylene torch...
...earnest plea for action is now realized. He is honorary chairman of a national committee, of which Franklin Roosevelt is active head, to raise $15,000,000 at least, for the completion of the cathedral. The New York chairman is Elihu Root. The cathedral is national, or even international, in its interest, for when it is completed it will be by far the largest cathedral in the Protestant or in the English speaking world, second only in size to Seville and St. Peter...
Schall and Sydney Anderson, ex-Representatives Earnest Lundeen and Halvor Steenerson, Oscar Hallam, Victor L. Power, Martin J. Martin. Democrats: James A. Carley, Francis C. Carey. Farmer-Laborites: Ex-Representative Charles A. Lindbergh, Dr. L. A. Fritzche, Magnus Johnson. Former Representative Lindbergh, a Farmer-Labor candidate in the Minnesota Senatorial primaries, used an aeroplane to make a stumping tour of the state. His son was his pilot. But the aeroplane was disabled and Mr. Lindbergh had to finish his tour by rail. Senator La Follette is resting at the Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitorium before going on a speaking tour...
Seniors, for all their epithet of "Solemn", are not usually an entirely serious-minded clan; and the proposals for reforming the University that were expressed in last year's questionnaires, are not all of them in deadly earnest. One for example, urged that Radcliffe should be incorporated into the University, so that Harvard might profit by the advantages of co-education as it is known in the West. Yet on the whole the 1922 First Annual Report, which reprints many of these brief reform-bills, is a storehouse of valuable suggestions from en whose ideas were formed on the best...