Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes from a lack of rehearsals. A singer will not agree with the orchestra about the tempo. Ensembles will not move along together, with a resultant flagging of gait. The action, too, is apt to be unsynchronized. It is perhaps over much to expect that a troupe charging a modest fee shall go in extravagantly for such expensive things as rehearsals...
...Chicago Daily Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," is not afraid to place itself in famous company. Recently it took its stand beside Dean Jonathan Swift, master of the most devastating satire ever known. When Swift wrote his Modest Proposal for disposing of excess Irish population by feeding children of the Irish poor as hors d'oeuvre to the well-to-do, he was taken seriously by his countrymen and for a time ostracized. The Tribune, far from profiting by the Dean's experience, printed instructions on How to Kill a Child...
...done little else but attend, by special request, the leading medical and surgical meetings of America and Great Britain, receiving enthusiastic ovations at every turn. Many an older man might be forgiven if such adulation went to his head, but not so Banting, who remains the same modest young seeker after truth...
Though it is undoubtedly unwise to try to make any prophecies as to 100,000-sellers for the Fall, it is sane enough perhaps to attempt to point the modest finger of discrimination at some few novels which seem worth recommending to the judicious reader, sight unseen. Imprimis, The Rover, by Conrad. And The Blind Bow-Boy which Carl Van Vechten, its author, describes as " a cartoon for a stained glass window," whatever that means. Jennifer Larne, a sedate extravaganza by Elinor Wylie. And the new Hergesheimer if it's the one we think it is. Meanwhile, the literary roulette...
...Harding Administration, as it reacts on the people, is that it doesn't make noise enough. It isn't showy enough. It is too calm. . . . This man Harding is neither noisy nor brilliant, in the showy acceptance of that term. He is not loud and declamatory. He is a modest man?too modest, no doubt ?and a calm man, and a man with a philosophy that has not worked out so badly, as will be shown. . . . "How much work does the President do? ... Rudolph Forster has been executive clerk at the White House since McKinley was President. . . . Forster says...