Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lasted only five minutes. But in that time, the swordlike blast, whistling 90 miles per hour, laid waste six thickly populated square miles. School roofs flew. A home for crippled children and a whole street of modest dwellings were laid open like dolls' houses, the walls being sucked off outwards by the tornadic vacuum. Steeples crashed, autos slid, trees swept by, scantlings whizzed, people who failed to lie prone were knocked so and dragged along...
...think it's pretty crude myself," ventured Mr. Smith, modest...
Miss America 1926. Among the pseudonymphs who arrived on the first day of the pageant was Miss America 1926. She, Miss Norma Descynge Smallwood, was expected to lead the beauty parade after the custom for veteran victors. A demure and modest girl last summer, she had now become haughty and proud. She had been making approximately $1,200 weekly since her victory a year ago. Only for a like sum, she in- formed the judges, would she spend a week of her time leading the present crop. The judges demurred, selected Princess America I, an Indian girl called Alice Garry...
...Constant Reader" is the busiest writer to newspapers among U. S. citizens. Other citizens-such as "Vox Populi" and "A Friend"- correspond freely with their editors. Last week another name, not wholly unfamiliar to readers of newspaper letter columns, appeared in the New York Times. This correspondent "ventured a modest demurrer" to a Times editorial belaboring the U. S. tendency to select its college presidents for various educational virtues-but not for scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first...
While waiting for this to happen no gentleman will omit a few modest, customary intimations that the number of birds which he slew last year on such-and-such a moor was really colossal...