Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave himself-'the ironmaster.' . . . Stinnes never was an admirer of the Kaiser. In 1913 he refused to participate in the presentation of a memorial because, as he said to me, he considered the Kaiser as the biggest misfortune of the German Empire. . . . He lives in a modest little house in Berlin-the same house that was occupied by his parents. He dresses with almost studied simplicity. . . . August Thyssen, next to Stinnes, is the greatest business man in Germany." The next in order of greatness, he said, are Herren Carl Friedrich Siemens, head of the electrical industry, and Felix...
Neither the orchestra score nor the libretto had the force of art. It was too ambitious a project for the modest talents of Ziegfeld, the son. The opera as it was savored only of a poor imitation of Richard, the father...
...rival college, and many other particular elements of life in Cambridge are made fun of so that anyone could understand the reasons. Yet like Goldsmith's "History of England", this Lampoon does "no harm to nobody." It simply keeps the College healthily astir and confronts it with a modest image of itself at the present moment...
...world has waited long for a first-hand account of the life and work of Pierre Curie and his distinguished collaborator and widow, Marie Sklodowska Curie. Fortunately this greatest and most modest of living women has at last been prevailed upon to set down, not only a narrative of her husband's life?, but extensive autobiographical notes, without which the story would be a truncated cone. It contains a chapter on her American visit of 1921, and an illuminating introduction by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, former editor of The Delineator, who conceived and engineered Mme. Curie's trip...
This contrast is of extremes. The Coolidge candidacy will not be too modest a flower, as is evident already. Neither is it likely to be as boisterous as that of Hiram Johnson threatens to be. It has good financial backing and there will be much judicious publicity...