Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great shakes as a chemist was simple, earnest Fritz Kuhn. But he had a hero. One man he honored above all men: Mein Fuhrer...
...torrential expressions of Fritz Kuhn's feelings. Wrote the Daily News's owlish reporters: "[The letters] were the masterly efforts of the man of action who-although in the throes of passion-remembers that life is real and life is earnest. In one passage he wrote Florence that he loved her with his whole soul and body and was about to have his teeth fixed...
Precise and tall among the nondescript brownstones off Manhattan's Gramercy Park stands the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, founded 23 years ago by an earnest laryngologist with the neat name of James Sonnett Greene. The hospital cannot pretend to serve all the 13,000,000 afflicted with speech disorders in the U. S., but it does its bit. In its time it has helped some 30,000, has guided a national move toward unfettered speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened...
Anent Sir Philip Gibbs and "Winkles on Pins" (TiME, Nov. 6, p. 28), does not British tank officer's "dark saying" burst into klieg-light clarity when quoted as ". . . he was the winkle in [not on] the pin if war should ever begin in earnest...
Speaking on the subject "Should We Ignore Racial Differences" at the Town Hall Meeting of the Air Thursday night, Professor Earnest A. Hooton of Harvard University chloroformed his listeners with a demagogic speech smacking strongly of fascist racial theories. . . ." The Daily Worker...