Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rage at the playwright's rumored intimacy with his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, the splenetic Marquess of Queensberry, whose name is still associated with the Queensberry rules governing the manly art of pugilism, went to the opening night of Wilde's hit play, The Importance of Being Earnest, determined to insult him. Barred from the theater by a forewarned Wilde, he went later to the playwright's club and left a card: "To Oscar Wilde, posing as a somdomite [sic]." Wilde's friends persuaded him to bring charges for criminal libel. In the trial that followed...
From now on I hope the Groton kids will look farther afield than dear old Haarvoord when they graduate to higher fields of learning. Sincerely Earnest Briars Rochester, New York...
There is a clear reason for the G.O.P. trouble: the party has one too many candidates for the office. The candidate blessed by all the important Republican organizations is Glenard P. Lipscomb, 38, an earnest, intense certified public accountant who has represented one section of the district in the California State Assembly for the last six years. Lipscomb is considered a member of the California Republican faction headed by Vice President Richard Nixon. Still in the race, despite strong organization pressure to get him out, is Republican John L. Collier, 49, a big, blunt manufacturer's agent...
...casual amateur does not worry about producing art, although experts are sure that, scattered in the nation's family albums, there are enough undiscovered masterpieces to fill the National Gallery. The more earnest amateur is organized in a network of 9,000 camera clubs across the U.S. He exhibits his work in museums, at international salons, and, between times, to a captive audience of visiting neighbors. Five major camera magazines with a combined monthly circulation of 806,000 are published for him, as well as 60 camera columns syndicated in hundreds of newspapers. He has made the picture book...
...part, Herbert McGregor gives one of the evening's major performances, wry and crisply professorial. Director Theodore Gershuny had good luck with two of the play's liberals, Homet and McGregor, but he should remind Steven Banker that he is playing a hot-headed college radical. Banker is neither earnest nor intent enough; he appears always on the verge of a smile...