Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkey are now cooped up in such quarters that four or five must sleep in a small room. Financier Morgan was impressed by what he saw and heard, last week, but sometimes even great philanthropists are tardy about giving aid. Therefore generous and perspicacious U. S. citizens-some of modest means-sent cheques at once, last week, to the Near East Colleges Association in Manhattan which is charged with receiving contributions for the American Hospital in Constantinople...
...solace of many a dowager at Paris is the ubiquitous gigolo, a male who lurks in smart dancing places and is ready, for a modest tip, to offer gallantries to ladies whose age or ugliness induces them to buy what others can command...
...months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing, with a minimum of scribblings and erasures, the single typewritten manuscript in which her works make their initial and dangerously modest appearance. A person as mercurial and far more alive than those whose faces peer in startled beauty from the blossomed branches of her writing, Author Wylie lives in Manhattan, venturing but seldom to go among the troops of esthetes who long to do her honor. Her library is stocked with...
...African novelist to whom Mr. Smith "dictated" Trader Horn is a Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis. How large a share of the best-selling royalties goes to her was guessed, last week, from the fact that Mr. Smith reached Manhattan traveling second class on the Olympic and put up at the modest Fifth Avenue Hotel...
...minor incidents in the life of Alexander Pope, "Vendetta," by J. E. Barnett, which is probably the high light of the entire issue. It is a straightforward, readable account of Pope's literary feud with Lady Wortley Montagu--an account which is attractive chiefly, perhaps, because its pretensions are modest and the reader is pleasantly surprised to find them more than fulfilled...