Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relaxation of the rule would give student rooters something besides their programs to look at during time-out periods," added Earnest...
...have an education. What happens when a fine lecturer with loving knowledge of his specialty teaches that very specialty is illustrated by Frederick Merk, his watch, his pointer, and his History of the Westward Movement. Implacable enemy of the land speculator, chronicler of lusty American frontier democracy, the slight, earnest Professor is considered by many to have assumed the mantle of the late F. J. Turner as leading historian of the American West...
...Neill entered a tuberculosis sanatorium, spent his time there reading Ibsen and Strindberg. Cured, he took a course (paid for by O'Neill Sr.) at Professor George Pierce Baker's famed playwriting laboratory at Harvard. Next summer, the Provincetown Players, a little group of earnest amateurs, put on O'Neill's Bound East for Cardiff...
Last week in Manhattan, 56-year-old Dame Myra Hess, greatest of all contemporary women pianists, played her first U.S. recital in 7½ years. The concert had been sold out weeks in advance. In the audience, earnest young piano students used scores to follow her program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Manhattan's concertgoers found her style cool, careful and womanly: a grateful contrast to some of the pedal pounding and frantic gymnastics that passes for virtuosity these days...
...Married. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 80, former Georgia Congressman (1919-27), 1932 presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party ("I got drunk when I was 16 . . . have been ashamed ever since") ; and Mrs. Lily Galloway, 60, California temperance leader; both for the second time; in Columbus, Ga. Cried ecstatic Mrs. Galloway: "Brother Willie's life is more like the Sermon on the Mount . . . than any other man I've known." Chuckled the groom: "I'm blending romance with religion...