Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced were chiefly of the ready-made variety; i. e., plans which people with specific cure-alls for the world's ills have been advocating for some time. The Policy Committee made public none of the plans, but some of the authors of plans were not so modest...
...Hornet, published monthly at Mocksville, N. C., sells for 35 cents a year, $1.00 for four years. For this modest price its readers obtain monthly four pages of print that comprise the "Hottest Democratic Paper in the United States...
...Mencken and Martin Luther. Yet he is not fanatical in his humorous creeds. He is writing a serious novel in which he firmly believes, and has written a play which, he tells us, was neither humorous, serious nor good; but then, Mr. Stewart, among many other things, is a modest...
...Kansas method of settling labor problems, Labor has established an educational institution by which it hopes to work out its own salvation. Brookwood College at Katonah, N. Y., the first labor college in this country, held its first Commencement two weeks ago and in spite of the modest size of its graduating class, it has received unusual notice from the country at large. Its curriculum is reduced to the bare bones of utility. In a two year course sociology, psychology, labor statistics, and labor problems are taught, and two hours of manual labor daily are required. The graduating class...
...egotism of most authors heralds them and meets you as they en ter the door. I have yet to discover it in Hugh Walpole. He is the most modest author I know, yet, somehow, the most confident. He believes in his books; but he does not expect you to believe in them. If you do, he is glad. If you do not? well, then, there will always be another. Walpols is tall, broad-shouldered, practically always smiling. He has a broad fore head, He wears glasses. His plat form manner is excellent, and he speaks as he writes ? with...