Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the only loophole in this clear cut proposition seemed to be the "modest stipends," correspondents asked about them...
...German invitation to sit on the new Committee of Experts as one of two U. S. members. This meant that the revised Dawes Plan will probably go down in history as the Young Plan. Among those who might object would not be Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. Just and modest, General Dawes has already said (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) that the original Dawes Plan was largely the work of one of his colleagues on the Reparations Commission, none other than Owen D. Young...
Back Seat Drivers is a farce in which two women try to manage their husbands' finances. They get involved in crockery and their husbands have to catch thieves. Spots of this are funny, in a modest...
...Royal Highness, officially the "High and Mighty Prince of Wales," resided during the week at York House, his modest bachelor suite in a wing of St. James Palace...
Rumanians learned last week who is the very best mother in all Rumania. They were told by the Dowager Queen Marie-herself the mother of three Rumanian princesses, Princess Ileana, ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece and Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. So modest is Dowager Queen Marie that she did not proclaim herself "Best Mother" as some catty enemies thought she would. Instead a painstaking search has been carried on by Her Majesty for some weeks, with a view to bestowing a large gold medal on Rumania's very best mother. Last week the 32-year-old mother...