Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World War I was hardly three weeks old when one William Ewert Berry, publisher of a modest group of British journals, came out with a weekly picture magazine: War Illustrated. Before the War ended and the Illustrated died, it had a circulation of 750,000 (record for its day) made Berry rich and helped earn him a knighthood. Editor was husky 43-year-old John Hammerton...
...this second collection O'Hara has written his first Foreword, a modest, touchy acknowledgment of his pleasure in other people's short stories and in his own. Then there are 35 stories in which the reader meets, briefly but none too briefly, about twice that many strictly American heels. Some are heels because they are young and dumb, some because they are trapped and tired. Some are pure heels, like the prep schoolteacher who enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women...
John Francis Herlihy, Timothy Joseph Horan, Jr., Jacob Harry Jurmain, Leonard Lawrence Kilfoyle, Samuel Howard Miller, Jr., Edward Julian Modest, Samuel Henry Noon, Kalman Novak, John Hamilton Reynolds, Arthur James Scully, Jr., Harry Clement Stubbs, Willard Herbert Whippen...
...over his radio he heard that his Fatherland had marched into Poland and, two days later, that England & France had gone to war against Germany, the 80-year-old man was awakened out of his life-end siesta. He called his wife Hermine and entourage into his modest living room and led them in prayer. Then he went upstairs, knelt by the bed where his first wife, Empress Augusta-Victoria had died 18 years before, and prayed again, alone. After that the old man seemed to take a new lease on life. Downstairs, in the great hall, he spread before...
Southern California, scene of the mighty creative labors of Screenland, is not notable for cultivation of the more modest arts and crafts. Walter Conrad Arensberg, one of the quietest and most discriminating U. S. collectors of modern art, has said that in Hollywood he enjoys the most perfect vacuum America can produce. A symbol of this condition has long been the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Supported by the County of Los Angeles, it has boasted a beautiful lawn, a superb collection of fossils, and, since the last one was fired early in Depression, no art curator...