Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, Minister Konitza suggested that Bishop Noli would make an excellent head for a university which Zog intends to establish in Albania. Said modest Bishop Noli, Harvard graduate summa cum laude: "I am not good enough for such an important work...
...told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel (848 pages), The Pasquier Chronicles reaches its modest distinction only when its central character, the tireless Papa Pasquier, gets involved in so many affairs that neither he nor the reader can keep them straight...
Sure enough, several hours later Graney heard the scraping of a cat's feet outside his door. Interviewed after his feat, Graney was modest. "It wuz nuthin'," he blushed...
Cambridge has had an interesting history, and one chapter of this history which will live for some time concerns a very modest set of traffic signals in Central Square...
...Focus Editor Leslie T. White managed last week to put his brand-new monthly picture magazine in the news by getting himself indicted for criminal libel by a Texas grand jury. Once one of California's best and most disillusioned detectives, Editor White wrote a modest best seller (Me, Detective) in 1936. In Focus, promoted through stock subscriptions, he began a pictorial crusade against national evils, for his first picked San Antonio's pecan-shelling industry...