Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentimentally, the Cantabs, as the all British crew, were the favorites, but the hard money odds were on Oxford. The Oxonians started with a stroke of 39 and a lead. The Cantabs, pulling their oars in splendid unison, rowed at a modest 36. Half a mile down the river the crews were hitting 31. Then the Cantabs took the lead, increased the lead, and, at the end of four miles, crossed the line four and a half lengths ahead. Throughout the race, the Oxford eight seemed unable to get together. At the finish they dropped exhausted across their oars...
Mussolini's Ambassadors spend much of their time outside the land of sunshine and black shirts in praising the modest leader of the Fascisti...
...performed this transmorphosis is extremely modest. Irvin S. Cobb, famed humorist, described him by saying: "He likes double- breasted sack coats, large brunette cigars, his friends, chocolate bonbons, his family, the Grand Canyon, two cups of coffee for breakfast, and rhododendrons on his front lawn...
...streets in many Italian cities were named Via Wilson, Via d'Annunzio or Via Fiume, to suit changing enthusiasms. To name a street for Mussolini is not enough. So it is reported from Milan that a "model city" will be constructed in southern Italy in honor of the modest Benito and that this city will bear "for all time" the novel name of "Mussolini...
...filled with excellent background and quick characterization. They move rapidly. They are good stories, probably the best of all the western stories. Mrs. Morrow herself, is tall, dark, a person of rare dignity and poise and of no pretentious. For five years she edited The Delineator. She is modest and she is ambitious. Her new novel,* appearing serially now in Everybody's is called The Devonshers and is a combination of mystery, adventure and the great West. She is a careful workman, spends weeks of hard work revising a manuscript that does not satisfy her. She is, of course, thoroughly...