Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure Basque, exclusively descended from Basques, I am ashamed of the intent to present the Spanish Basques as a picturesque, dancing and pseudomystic people, when they are the most practical, active and earnest of the Spaniards...
...autobiography, Persons and Places, on the other hand, which describe the spiritual history of his wandering, split-up family, the life in Avila at the turn of the century where sorrow, rigid custom and a melancholy religion absolutely ruled the population, and the strange contrasts offered by the earnest Boston of William James and the raffish England of Lord John Russell-in things like these Santayana is a master...
Scion of a Boston family which had moved to Illinois, Moore naturally went to Harvard (class of '35), where he became president of Hasty Pudding and wrote the score for its 1934 show, Hades the Ladies. He had thought of making music his career, but anthropology under Earnest Hooton led him to medicine. It was not until his fourth year in Harvard Medical School that Moore decided to become a surgeon...
Food & Drink. Now, only a dozen years after the investigation got going in earnest, the new-school surgeons have assembled this much of the pattern...
...ordinary Duchess." When he made a helpful suggestion about a maid of honor, it came back with the words: "The Queen has yet to learn that Capt. Ponsonby has anything to do with the Maids of Honor." Much the same snub was inflicted on an earnest clergyman who tried to rouse Victoria's sympathy for the poor by mentioning a house where seven had to use one bed. "Had I been one of them," observed the Queen, "I would have slept on the floor...