Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Premier, Themistocles Sophoulis, seemed grimmer than usual. He signed an emergency decree empowering the government to requisition houses and factories, conscript any man or woman, including doctors and nurses. Nightclubs were closed. Execution of some 1,500 jailed and condemned rebels got going in earnest...
...went off to Europe, met a fellow tourist, blonde Margery Pepperell Kimball from Massachusetts. Their romance bloomed. They were no sooner married than Clifford began nourishing as a lawyer. St. Louis Lawyer Jacob Lashly began throwing accident cases his way, soon saw that with juries, handsome, earnest Clifford was "well nigh irresistible." By 1938 the firm became Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford and by 1942 the new partner was making $25,000 a year...
...this issue, Signature's earnest editors treat the problems of "What is Wrong of Right with College Writing?" by printing two articles of advice to young literary people. Mrs. Jano Pierce, Travel Editor for Glamour Magazine, tells her readers, "Ask Yourself which magazine would seem to be most receptive to your idea--then try to fit it as nearly as possible to the pattern of that magazine . . . Of course if you're a genius, you won't have to worry about those rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement...
...whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large and earnest." Never had Robinson known happier days; it is doubtful if he ever again knew such happy ones...
Furia (Italian). A refreshingly candid, rather steamy, essentially adolescent film about rural adultery, with good work by Isa Pola as the frankest movie temptress in years. Earnest, but overrated by those who think that the Italians (Open City, Shoe Shine, etc.) can do no wrong...