Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months before left a workaday mechanic's job to flivver off into the sky, blarneyed his way to Dublin and back and became the most fabulous escapist of his time. Back down from the sky, he came, after a triumphal tour of 44 cheering cities, looking as modest as Lindbergh, when he stepped out of his little ship at Glendale airport...
Last week, John A. Casterline of Dover, N. J., a modest, patient man who loves trees, eagerly showed reporters four luxuriant chestnut trees on the New Jersey estate of Success Coach Walter Boughton Pitkin. Then he displayed two more in his own backyard. They had been struck with the blight, he said, but he had saved them with his new tannic acid treatment. Method of treatment is simple: on the theories currently held by tree experts, that: 1) the tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree...
English snobbery made her fume, but she later decided a rigid caste system had the good result of making modest-income people immune to success stories, and hence to U. S. "bootstrap hysteria." "A good deal in England makes the blood boil," says Author Halsey, "but there is not nearly so much occasion as there is in America for blood to run cold"-meaning lynchings, gangsters, etc. As between good and bad Englishness, Author Halsey calls it about a draw. "Living in England," she concludes, "must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. Whenever you have...
...That Kentucky-born fundamentalist worked his way through law school by teaching, soon shifted from law to banking, has long been president of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. This is a high-sounding but not very potent job and the Martins continue to live quietly in the modest three-story house at No. 5055 Waterman Avenue, a nice but not ultra-fashionable district...
...17th Century there was a Krupp in Essen who made a neat parcel of money by selling small arms to the opposing armies in the Thirty Years' War. For two centuries Krupps were modest grocers, moneylenders and ironmasters. Then Prussia placed an order for solid shot with Friedrich Krupp's ironworks and they began to make money in a big way. Since then, war by war, Krupps have grown richer. It is the weary conclusion of German Exile Bernhard Menne, whose biography of the Krupp family was published in the U. S. last week, that there will...