Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time Mr. Macfadden had been haled to court in years. His first arrest was in 1901, when Federal authorities got after the posters for one of his early beauty shows (a modest affair in tights but warm for its day). At that time the pure zeal of a reformer burned in Mr. Macfadden. He was but seven years away from his native Missouri. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he had built himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique...
...term "White Elephant" originated, as Siamese know, from the practice of the ancient Siamese kings in presenting to courtiers whom they wished to ruin a white and therefore sacred elephant, the upkeep of which, including the hire of hundreds of attendants, was enough to bankrupt any man of modest fortune...
Toothpicks. "Perhaps occasionally toothpicks are harmful, but no more so comparatively than razors, scissors, safety pins, matches and even dental restorations in some instances. Why can't we be modest about it and derive the benefits to be derived from the proper use of the proper toothpick at the proper time?"-Dr. C. M. Kennedy, Des Moines...
...historic store the Scopes trial crowds spent much time and money, is president of the Bryan Memorial University Association. And in Manhattan, last week, newsgatherers discovered one of many local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm M. Lockhart, onetime solicitor for the Near East Relief...
...francs ($200) to the Abbé des Noyers, sentenced the two convicted males to eight months' imprisonment, imprisoned their eight female accomplices for six months and assessed upon them costs and a fine of 100 francs ($4) each. Since several of the defendants were of more than modest wealth, and since Mme. Mesmin was not ousted from her sanctum at Bordeaux, the persistence of the cult seemed scarcely threatened. Significantly Mme. Mesmin came originally from Lyons, where, in the words of J. K. Huysmans: "Satanism still flourishes, and every heresy pullulates and is green...