Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that he had recently invested a sum of money?modest, to be sure, a trifle of $250?in the stock of the De Forest Phonofilm Corporation of Manhattan. Regretting his investment, he had gone to the office of the Corporation, asked for a refund, had been advised that if he parted from his stock he would be sorry all his life. He then offered, he declared, to sell his holding for $150, was told, this time more brusquely, that he had bought the stock would have to keep it. An individual named Elliott was president of the sales corporation...
...beyond this public lynching?of which Senator Walsh was the impassive, modest hero?nothing has transpired which permits the word "criminal" to be attached to Fall, Sinclair, Doheny...
...deep ravine of Wall Street, it is an old story of how Claude H. Foster founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co. on the modest sum of $1,500. Wall Street was equally cognizant that that Company earned $1,086,195 last year, representing an interest of 72,413% on the original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
...Canada, where he established a most profitable counterfeiting establishment beyond reach of the U. S. law. That he wound up in the Catholic Church argues, perhaps, a retarded outcropping of his Puritanical upbringing ; perhaps one last hypocrisy to ensure comfort in old age. The rhetorical, mock-modest manner of his memoirs, which he published to a wide audience in 1811, indicate the complete hypocrite -a varlet of guile and gusto to whom a naive generation quite naturally credited unnatural sins and the comradeship of Satan. Poet Frost, in a preface to the reissued memoirs, would place Burroughs beside Jonathan Edwards...
...Buffalo, Paavo Nurmi, who recently ate not wisely but too well of veal pie-and was defeated by Willie Ritola-partook of a modest snack, got into his running clothes, once more opposed Ritola in the 5,000-metre race. This time it seemed to be Ritola who was stricken. He fumbled at his side, strapped his belly with a belt handed to him by his manager, finished 120 yards behind Nurmi who was 14 seconds behind the world's record held by Ritola...