Word: meekness
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...Jewish: Eleanor Kahn, who has sung with the San Francisco Opera. Monsignor Bosetti, not only conductor but stage manager and vocal coach as well, drives his casts as hard as any Toscanini, and commands as much respect. When he gives a bawling-out, the customary response is a meek: "Thank you, father...
...saying "meek as Moses" rests almost entirely on one bad slip in the King James Bible, Numbers 12:3: "Now the man Moses was very meek. . . ." The correct translation of the original Hebrew is "vexed," which confirms the Old Testament's report that Moses killed an Egyptian for smiting a Hebrew, that after the incident of the golden calf he ordered Hebrews to slay "every man his brother...
...hide the fact that her figure is not what the simmer in her eyes would lead us to believe. But she does no acting, says nothing funny, and in general handles a highly insipid part in a highly insipid fashion. The one bright spot in the picture is Donald Meek, who appears for a few brief moments as a philosophical hobo. But his part is too brief to have any effect on the picture as a whole, and once he goes away the audience is doomed to an hour of very dull and very unsuccessful Holloywood sophistication...
...ultimate connoisseurs of what's what in feminine pulchritude. The "savior faire" of the son's of "Veritas" was officially recognized when nine men were asked by the American Society of Beauty Culturists to cast their unbiased glances over numerous contributions to what makes a strong man meek submitted by Wilfred Academy...
When Coca-Cola's meek, mild Vice President and Secretary George T. Adams got a mysterious call from Washington, he examined his conscience, found it clean. Like many another U. S. businessman, he nonetheless half-expected a scolding. Instead he received a pat on the head. Said the Army Ordnance Department: "We want Coca-Cola to build and manage a bag loading plant...