Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those 14 years, earnest, honest Lou Gehrig, the sort of player managers dream about, made a fetish of his endurance record. Eclipsed by his colorful, temperamental teammate Babe Ruth, plodding Lou Gehrig felt that his drawing power was his dependability rather than his brilliance. When, at spring training camp this year, the Iron Horse suddenly realized that he was getting rusty, panic overtook him. He brooded, became tense at bat. Sportswriters, viewing his feeble performance, wrote his batting obituary-for all the world to read - before the season started...
Hooton on Jews. Harvard's Professor Earnest Albert Hooton is a popeyed, witty anthropologist who is noted for his pessimistic views on the state of mankind in general. Last week Anthropologist Hooton, no Jew, published in Collier's as outspoken and provocative an article on the Jewish question as the U. S. press has printed in many...
...Poland is in earnest and will fight it Hitler tries to take Danzig," Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, and expert on Eastern European affairs stated yesterday...
...Earnest Albert Hooton, professor of Anthropology, Curator of Somatology, and member of the faculty of the Peabody Museum, suggested in Collier's magazine today that assimilation of the Jewish minorities by intermarriage is the only solution of the "Jewish problem...
...verbal socks, though a little tender on the receiving end, proceeded to tag individual columnists with some typical Ickes' characterizations. Walter Lippmann "would never even break his wooden sword unless he should trip over it in a minuet." Dorothy Thompson, "the Cassandra of the columnists*. . . a sincere and earnest lady who is trying to cover too much ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake...