Word: meek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that he was expected to be. He had promised not to criticize the rules of the Senate but he made it look as though he intended to enforce them...
...upon Esther Ralston, a Viennese servant-girl. It isn't always clear why she should bear so much-the loss of her child, the concealment of her marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef von Sternberg, director of Underworld, often gives this unusual picture the Spartan, grand effect he tries for. Best shot: Austrian officer brushing his hair before...
Certain friends of Prof. William Lyon Phelps spluttered with alarm when they read last week that he had been installed honorary pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. They envisioned the famed teacher, talker, critic, nodding meek approval on the platform of Calvary Baptist of the harsh fundamentalisms of Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor-in-chief...
...sons. Through a quiet life of 56 years he has risen slowly from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker. Unashamed of poverty, he claims to have worn every day since 1924 the same now threadbare morning coat, striped trousers, soft felt hat. A meek man, President Miklas has been content to stand and wait upon Monsignor Seipel and other leaders of the Clerical party called "Christian Socialist." The fact that he was elected is a tribute to the continued potency of Chancellor Seipel's coalition. But the fact that 91 Socialist electors abstained...
...Broun of the Class of 1910 that when Harvard beats Yale, that's news. So this week his trenchant page in the Nation is one long, but strangely two-headed complaint of the intense rivalry between the universities. The more vociferous head roars a regular Harvard cheer white its meek twin now and then barks faintly that this should not be so, and becomes full-throated only in the crescendo of a mutual anti-Princeton feeling intimated just above the signature...