Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight dinner at U.S. Ambassador Joseph Green's, young King Hussein, attired in a dinner jacket, bounded in like an American teen-ager come to pick up his date, stayed on to impress the Secretary with his earnest concern for his poor country. Dulles asked permission to visit some of the refugee camps; Jordan security officers refused, explaining: "We're not taking any chances." ¶General Adib Shishekly, boss of Syria, the fourth stop, seemed to impress Dulles more than any other Arab leader, even more than...
Nevertheless, the W.R.A.'s efforts were on the whole successful, both financially and otherwise. The sun came out, and everybody was in a good humor. The Hospitality girls were very pretty, the beer was very cold and tasty, the W.R.A. men were very kind, and their earnest efforts afforded much amusement...
...speeches at $100-a-plate political dinners go, the President's speech was notably unpolitical. Speaking from sparse notes printed on cards, he delivered not a tub-thumping pep talk but an earnest "account of what has been going on in Washington." The Administration's "great objective," he said, is to create "a government whose honor at home commands respect abroad." Other notes...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Importance of Being Earnest, with Rex Harrison. Lilli Palmer...
...into his picture, notably by having the better part of the 200 attractive accident victims strewed about on the collapsed staircase in various states of fetching disarray. But underneath all this excessive color, the picture has a hard bedrock of realism that props it up dramatically: it is an earnest, often eloquent indictment of social conditions that can lead to such a disaster in the first place. The moral is underlined at the end. After the last accident victim has been removed, one of the girls again lines up in front of the building, waiting for morning to apply...