Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lush green tropical mountains ringing Formosa's capital. Farther south, water, buffaloes dragged plows for peak-capped farmers turning soil for one of their three yearly rice crops. Nearby lay fields thick with sugar cane and vegetables. At night, electric lights -rare in rural Asia-twinkled from the modest huts of tiny villages. By day many villagers not needed in the fields worked in the small industrial plants that dot the island. Compared to mainland Chinese, the Formosans were well off. Nevertheless they were grumbling. In guarded whispers they spoke of the "good old days" of Japanese rule...
...University of Illinois' James Garfield Randall, 68, most scholarly of the Lincoln biographers (Lincoln and the South; Lincoln the Liberal Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...
Roughshod (RKO Radio) is a modest little film which offers several minor but pleasant surprises. It is a western, but it is hardly recognizable as such, since it was filmed in black & white against a landscape not even remotely resembling a Grand National Park. Its story is peopled mostly by quiet, plausible characters who engage in no horsy heroics and in only one shooting fracas. In fact, its hero (Robert Sterling) openly confesses to a distaste for manslaughter...
Eckstine, a modest, soft-spoken man offstage, lives quietly, when autograph hounds let him, with his wife June and his collie "Crooner," in uptown Manhattan. His one recreation is golf. He started playing last year, now often goes direct to the course from his last show at 4 a.m. He is already shooting around 85. One reason: he takes his own professional with him, even on trips...
Barbecue & Bingo. From their modest start in Camden (NJ.) in 1933, the drive-ins have grown too big to be dampened by rain. They woo the family trade with an imposing sideshow of picnic areas, merry-go-rounds, dance floors, shuffleboard courts and bottle-warming, car-washing and laundry service. Among the latest gimmicks, planned or already drawing customers to the airers: nightclubs, golf-driving ranges, Shetland ponies, barbecue pits and motorized bingo (the jackpot goes to the right speedometer mileage...