Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missouri's earnest, plodding Forrest C. Donnell is one U.S. Senator who has never sampled the hospitality of Washington's No. 1 hostess, Perle Mesta. Last week, when her appointment as U.S. minister to Luxembourg reached the Senate floor, Republican Donnell was ready & waiting with a hungry look in his eye. First he demanded to know whether the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had ever discussed Perle's qualifications (it had not); then he read extensively from J. Rives Childs's American Foreign Service, to prove she had none...
...Menace (Republic), Hollywood's first full-length ABC of U.S. communism, is like most primers: earnest and elementary. In fact, it is so elementary that it hardly gets beyond spelling out the ideological equivalent...
Angeles had been exploded and thaf he had gained a fresh and more accurate impression of the city and its people. Murray, a native of Hartford, Conn., spent part of his time reconciling discrepancies and disagreements among historians about early Los Angeles, the remainder covering earnest, hardworking Mayor Bowron...
Dateline: Philadelphia. The new editor was almost his exact opposite as a personality. Sober, earnest Irving Dilliard, 44, an ex-Nieman fellow, has a schoolteacher's manner and a historian's mind. Dilliard is an expert on the U.S. Supreme Court, a pen-pal of several justices, a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography. The P-D distributed 70,000 reprints of his "news dispatches" (datelined Philadelphia, 1787) on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Mild-mannered Irving Dilliard can also write hard-hitting editorials. He wrote the celebrated "contempt of court" editorial, pounded out many...
Concluded LIFE: "The moviemakers, as the Round Table Editors met them, were earnest and thoughtful men, who represented the good Hollywood . . . The movies need . . . 'more freedom for more men of talent' . . . But [it] must be fought for by the good Hollywood and by the people who believe in freedom . . . From this Hollywood . . . these people can get movies as good as they demand-but demand them they must...