Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banged out a bull's-eye on her first shot, but young Elizabeth fired 30 rounds without a hit. There were bouts of deck tennis and shuffleboard, and-for the Princesses-a giddy series of tea parties in the midshipmen's "gun room," with charades and some earnest discussion of swing bands. At one formal dinner the Princesses sang the latest hits together as Margaret beat out a syncopated piano accompaniment...
...dean were the Harvard Law School's golden age. His faculty was famed: a volatile compound whose ingredients included the conservatism of the late Edward H. ("Bull") Warren, the New Dealism of James Landis and the confused leftism of Felix Frankfurter. Harvard turned out squads of bright and earnest lawyers who wrote or administered much of the early New Deal legislation (among them: Thomas Corcoran. David Lilienthal, Dean Acheson). Its postgraduate courses were the best in the U.S. Dean Pound's standards were high; and his customary greeting to incoming classes-"Gentlemen, take a good look...
Last week 200 earnest characters met in Los Angeles for pregnant shoptalk about sterility. With straight scientific faces, the American Society for the Study of Sterility (western branch) sat down to consider the fact that one-seventh of all U.S. couples are childless, and why. When Paul Popenoe, director of Los Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations, rose to speak, he nearly stopped the show. Said...
Behind the play's success, however, is the performance and direction of Mr. Gielgud. Whether he is dressed in morning for his undeceased and indeed imaginary brother Earnest or merely struggling with the force of Lady Bracknell, Gielgud is worth an evening at the theater...
...wrote Conrad Grebel, leader of the earnest little band of Swiss Bible students who later became known as Mennonites. Today their descendants-the plain-dressing, plainspeaking, plain-thinking Mennonites of the U.S. and Canada-are still conscious of Leader Grebel's warning. Last week they were doing their best to get some of their brother sheep to safer pastures...