Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deeply the hearts of Frenchmen were really stirred was shown, when "Iron Gustav" voiced a modest request to be received by Prime Minister Raymond Poincare-a request which was totally ignored...
...Southern Cross flew across 7,300 miles of water, 500 miles of land in ten days, in 89 flying hours. Modest Kingsford-Smith landing at Sydney behind schedule (one day), apologized. Rewards came quickly: $25,000 from proud grateful "Aussie"; the Southern Cross, the gift of its owner G. Allen Hancock, Los Angeles financier...
...gawky youth, timid and smirking, fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht, causes her fiance to appear in his true colors and marries her with affectionate alacrity in the last...
...first time in the present decade of Civil War, it can now be substantially claimed that all of China proper is under a single regime-the Nationalist Government, founded by the late, famed and revered Dr. Sun Yatsen, and led to victorious dominion by its present Generalissimo, slender, modest, democratic Chiang Kaishek...
Proud now as well as modest is Lane Bryant. Also is she potent in women's wear...