Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about Harvard football. That by the Chicago Tribune appeared the morning of the Harvard-Yale game. The one by the Manchester Union was published after the Harvard-Dartmouth game. The first is the Proclamation of a newspaper which calls itself "The World's Greatest". The second is the modest expression of a newspaper which makes no pretension to flamboyant greatness. But by their fruits ye shall know them...
Last week began the lengthy business of taking testimony. As a prelude Congressman Frank R. Reid, counsel for Colonel Mitchell, opened with a modest address of 22,000 words telling what he proposed to prove for his client to back up the sweeping statements for which Colonel Mitchell is being tried. He said he would prove that the lost Shenandoah was not a first rate dirigible and not in the best of condition, that a Navy officer had tried to persuade Mrs. Lansdowne not to testify that her husband had protested against the Shenandoah's fatal trip, that several...
Last week George V., modest Imperator et Rex, felt stirring within him that urge toward pheasant shooting which in his youth caused him to become one of the crack bird-shots of the Empire. While the Prince of Wales spurred madly after foxes and Queen Mary occupied herself with vague housewifely duties at Buckingham Palace, King George set out for his annual visit to Elveden Hall in Suffolk, where some of the finest pheasant and partridge shooting in England...
...long been known that Edward S. Jordan, President of Jordan Motors, writes his company's advertisements. Unlike many another captain of industry, he can scan The Saturday Evening Post and glow with a feeling of authorship. Against his occasional detractors he launches the modest battle cry: "I don't think much of Jordan advertising myself, but I love to write it. It's the only fun I have...
...Said modest Mr. Jordan, interviewed in this month's Printer's Ink Monthly...