Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diamond clasp on Mrs. Herter's triple strand of pearls. The declaration showed that the Herters had prudently limited their foreign purchases to exactly the amount-$200 worth-which they could bring in free. The inspectors smiled, perhaps to congratulate onetime Collector Edwards upon having such modest, honest friends, and began looking into Herter trunks in a way that promised to be pleasantly perfunctory...
...have their ills suavely diagnosed and treated, their wallets suavely deflated. Men whose purses are lean almost to nothingness walk into charity clinics and hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate to his income would be charged for the finest attention...
...CRIMSON'S correspondent, cloaking his argumentum ad hominem under the modest concealment of a requested anonymity, has shown, besides a certain orthographic freedom, a failure to read the editorial in question. The nucleus of the editorial reads...
Finally Mr. Baldwin rounded out an unusually philosophical week by addressing a banquet in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Spectator, famed British weekly review. Harking back to the U. S. Civil War, Orator Baldwin recalled that in 1863 the Spectator alluded to: "Mr. Lincoln's modest and somewhat vulgar but respectable statesmanship...
Oscar F. Grab last week bestowed his $1,000,000 dressmaking business upon 14 employes. Modest: "I couldn't have made a success without their assistance." Tireless: "I want to try something else." Generous Grab's "something else" is the executive vice-presidency of the Lefcourt Normandie National Bank (Manhattan...