Word: meek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Publisher Pulitzer, the executive staff of the Post-Dispatch keeps the paper running smoothly when he is, as he was last week, away for the summer at Bar Harbor. Managing Editor Oliver ("Jack") Bovard, lean, austere, hard to know, has held his job for 22 years. Meek, small, sandy-haired Cartoonist Fitzpatrick works in a cubbyhole off the city room. His drawings, notable for the dramatic effect obtained with an economy of line, are subject to editorial approval but are seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor...
Finally, as the week drew to a close, the whole convention sulked with a plain case of hurt feelings. Pedagogs patted their palms as Secretary Robert C. Moore of the Illinois State Teachers Association blurted out their grievance: "Our meek attitude and mild resolutions must cease. It is all too clear that we have little recognition as a power. We determined to come to Washington in the heat, thinking it probable that the President of the United States would like to address us. We have sweated and we have sweltered but not one single personal or official word has come...
From a Sunday rotogravure page of the Chicago Tribune fortnight ago peered the faces of two small creatures. One was a pudgy-jowled monster. The other was a meek-looking infant with bangs. The ugly picture had a credit line - Acme Photo. The other one was credited to the German consulate in Chicago. Below the pictures was printed a copy of a letter from the Acting Consul General, Dr. Wilhelm Tannenberg, to the Tribune. Excerpts...
...other feature is "Love, Honor, and Oh Baby," a humorous burlesque upon heart balm suits. The facial expressions of Slim Summerville, Zasu Donald Meek, and George Barbier, united in one picture afford good comedy...
...time is approaching when the problem of war debts must be given a decent burial. If the administration opens hasty, ill-considered negotiations now, it will be rewarded with a bumper crop of defaults. If it shows a meek willingness to take what is offered, the nominal sum which crosses the Atlantic will have more of a nuisance value than a commercial one, and will tangibly lower the nation's diplomatic batting average. The failure of ninety-five per cent of the debt-payments due last year resulted not merely from the poverty of the defaulting and token-paying countries...