Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint state funeral, small, earnest U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston talked long and seriously with General Harry H. Johnson, new chief of the U.S. section of the anti-aftosa commission-out of the corner of his mouth. Afterwards Thurston announced that he had ordered a full investigation. Later he handed to Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet a note deploring the comments of Mexican newspapers...
Dore Schary, RKO's earnest, gifted executive vice president in charge of production, was out (TIME, July 12). Like a thousand bumblebees in a clover field, the buzz of Hollywood speculation hung on the question of who would succeed Schary. Secretive Howard Hughes would not say. "It will be," he said, "someone you least suspect, a shocker...
Hopes for peace in Palestine centered largely on two men of royal blood who hurried by plane through the Middle East airlanes last week. One was earnest, Godfearing Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte; the other, mercurial King Abdullah of Transjordan, who was trying to unite the Arab world behind him to treat with-or fight-the Jews of Palestine...
...stars of the show-the presidential candidates-were not such bad actors as predicted. Taft surprised his critics (who had rated him the lowest of the candidates, telegenically) with earnest, honest, drily witty performances on two LIFE-NBC interviews. Dewey, at his best in a four-way press conference (newspaper-radio-newsreel-television), proved that he had picked up stage presence. NBC ran a specially prepared MARCH OF TIME film of the governor in his younger, stiffer days, which showed that Dewey had changed much more than the part in his hair...
Three months ago, earnest, angular Editor Ben McKelway of the Washington Star called one of his reporters on the carpet. To 29-year-old Tom G. Buchanan Jr., who covered the medical beat, the boss put one question: Are you a Communist? Reporter Buchanan, an ex-Army captain, replied that he was (an admission that most good Communists regard as naive). McKelway carefully assured Buchanan that his work had been satisfactory. Then he fired...