Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author White, oldest living native of U. S. parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like...
...Modest, Cheerful, Spunky...
...where one may have his hat blown off, his skirts blown up, ride on a merry-go-round, walk through a revolving barrel, slide down a chute into a wooden bowl, or scare his wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they can gaze down upon the antics of the crowd below...
...Press seemed to be that it had been rather disappointingly free from any new or sensational proclamations. Said the London Times of Mr. Baldwin: "Not a good stage manager." It added that in a modern democracy, a certain amount of "publicity," even if it is of a "modest" sort, is absolutely necessary. Said The Observer: "He spoke in the reassuring vein of a cultivated Micawber." There was a general feeling, however, that the convention had endorsed most of the Conservative leader's views by rising and cheering him loudly as he declared: "When the party wants to change...
...today," yet is now president of a large concern making electrical apparatus (Cutter Electric & Manufacturing Co.) by reason of a genius for not interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards a screwdriver with suspicion and a monkey-wrench with horror." Modest, he will permit no one to address him as "Doctor," though his abiding passion for English literature has caused three universities to confer upon him honorary degrees...