Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, fat, baldheaded man who has learned much in the last year and will learn a lot more in the next few weeks." Not all the campaign speeches of Editor William Allen White, self-nominated anti- Klan candidate for Governor of Kansas, have been as genial and mock-modest as this since he banged down his desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state-in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political fiddle...
...anyone who reflects a moment knows that campaigning costs money. Floods of literature inundate the counery before every election. To send one modest circular to every voter costs about ten cents a head, and totals over a million in itself. As campaign funds have run in the past, they have allowed an average expenditure of only about thirty cents to the voter. One can easily see, therefore, that the charges and counter-charges of both Republicans and Democrats upon this subject are for the most part arrant nonsense. And of Mr. Davis, who has seemed most disposed to press...
...this can be traced to the influence of Mr. Wigglesworth himself, an influence as powerful as it has been modest. For, coupled with a winning geniality, self-effacement is Mr. Wigglesworth's most striking characteristic...
...author of Greenmantle, Midwinter, The Three Hostages (one of the finest romances of modern times) was in Manhattan the other day for a few hours. Lieutenant Colonel John Buchan is a short, quiet-spoken, modest English author. In those characteristics, he is like Walter de la Mare and W. Somerset Maugham, our other English visitors of the moment. They arrived without blaring of trumpets-and both Buchan and Maugham departed quietly, after seeing a few things at the theatre and saying "how-do-you-do-goodbye" to a few friends...
Pink of cheek, blue of eye, modest of demeanor, he stood upon the 10th green of the Merion Cricket Club's West course at Ardmore, Pa., and received the cheers of 5,000 or more galleryites, the handshake of George Von Elm, youthful Los Angelist, whom he had defeated 10 and 8* in a ruthless final...