Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before 1914, the political condition of Greece was relatively stable, but the friction between the pro-German Constantine and the pro-Entente Venizelos was the beginning and the end of this modest stability. The King was outwardly neutral and inwardly in favor of entering the War on the side of Germany. Venizelos was wholeheartedly for intervening in the conflict on the side of the Allies. There was not room for Constantine and his Premier, so Venizelos was dismissed. For two years, cabinet succeeded cabinet with bewildering rapidity until Constantine was himself dismissed. His son Alexandros succeeded to the throne...
Come Diogenes! You may now Gillette away that beard you were wearing on a bet, for a man has been found, who, whether honest or not, is at least modest. A congressman has returned from Europe, but yet he does not know all about it, and has no solutions for the problems. Here is a man who is running almost as much risk as Victor Berger, for he is about as far away from the usual congressional character...
...friend, Tom, and I had been filled with the abounding zest and ambition of youth. We were determined to make something of ourselves, to go out into the world and do big things in a big way. One day Tom showed me the modest prospectus of the I. C. S., flanked on one side by a Holeproof Hosiery miss and on the other by an earnest exhortation to "Ask Dad, He Knows...
Cinema? "Development must come from the centre, not from the periphery." Nobel Prizes? "The prize-winners are like the modest hotels in Baedeker -'well spoken of: " American "hustle"? "George [Washington] did not run around like a mouse in oxygen as the modern American does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism...
...Edison's inventions -President of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and in general a magnate of the Middle West. He, with others-aids and witnesses of wholesale changes wrought by Edison inventions-did honor to the inventor.' Through it all a big white head nodded modest appreciation, a pair of bright blue eyes twinkled with pleasure...