Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taft route, a plane flew overhead towing a crimson banner which said: "Welcome, Senator, but We Like Ike." The Eisenhower state headquarters insisted this was the work of an individual Ike fan, not an organization maneuver. But by this week the Eisenhower forces were beginning their maneuvers in earnest. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Ike's national campaign manager, was coming home for some speeches. Others on the speaking schedule: Representative Christian Herter, an Eisenhower candidate for delegate; Ike strategist Paul Hoffman; Minnesota's Representative Walter Judd...
Last Saturday morning, while all the students who were not listening to Senator Taft on Cambridge Common were exercising their traditional Patriots Day privilege of sleeping late, something rather unusual was going on in the Houses. A group of earnest young men from Princeton, Haverford, and other colleges were dividing up into pairs and trios and visiting certain selected students rooms. Their purpose was to get the occupants of those rooms to come to a meeting that evening in Eliot House where they would tell all about their respective religious experiences...
Your April 7 cover story on her is, admirably, written along the same lines that make up her personality and character-slightly wistful, clearly understood, beautiful and earnest in their simplicity...
Headliner Gene Kelly is still a very find dancer and so amiable a character that most people are willing to sit through his earnest attempts at singing. Donald O'Connor, as Kelly's screen foil, borrows heavily from the Danny Kaye comedy style and comes up with a performance far above his previous efforts...
...corruption and by Communism's increasing strength, he emerged from his calculated obscurity and took over the government, announcing, as he suspended Parliament, that he was really not a dictator at heart. Polite and painstakingly softspoken, he once endured an amateur performance of The Importance of Being Earnest to the bitter end although he knew no English. Scrupulously honest, even by his enemies' admission, he recently furnished his modest Damascus home on the installment plan because he had no ready cash. A narrow escape from Tommy-gun slugs a year ago has made Syria's dictator even...