Word: modest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank you in advance for your attention to my modest request. I hope that we will both see the time when, in the mind of the layman, Mars will cease to rule on a celestial throne, but will take residence with his friend and cohort, Satan, in the bowels of the earth...
...Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...
...does not seem to know that the great little Prussian's parents used to refer to him as "Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General Director must have felt as proud as a flea that had whelped a whale. Too modest and certainly too wise to boast, STIMMING compressed his exultation into three sentences that spoke volumes, "Mein herren" he said in his always calm low voice to correspondents. "Gentlemen, every one likes to talk in periods of decades -of ten years. It is always a case of how things were...
...wife refusing to become a Lady. U. S. observers compared Mrs. Webb's renunciation to the self-effacement of Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith of the U. S. Friends said that one of her motives was to keep visible the famed name of Webb. Friends also said that modest Mr. Webb's acceptance of his title was his second sacrifice of the month for the Labor Party. Because his attainments made it a necessity that he be a member of the new MacDonald Cabinet, he relinquished his plan to retire after his 70th birthday, which occurs this month...
...mammoth investment trust is Ungerleider Corp., with its relatively modest 25-million-dollar initial capital. But in view of current criticisms, its structure attracted attention. It begins life with a management contract entered into with Samuel Ungerleider & Co., which provides that the brokerage house will receive no compensation except standard commissions unless the investment trust has earned in excess of 8% on its capital. When more than 8% has been earned, Samuel Unger leider & Co. will receive 20% of net profits, but only if the payment of such 20% does not reduce the corporation's profit below...