Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, Pope Pius offered a medal to that one of the Catholic Women's Diocesan Clubs that would evolve the most attractive modest fashion in women's clothing. The Clubs had inaugurated a campaign against immodest dress. The Pontiff's competition is divided into two parts: 1) a theoretic demonstration that immodest dress is silly, barbaric, uncultivated; 2) actual dress designs...
...chance to be the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, which carries with it, in this year of grace, more than a fair prospect of becoming President of the United States. In exchange, I am to abandon forthwith and immediately a law practice which is both pleasant and, within modest bounds, profitable, to throw over honorable clients who offer me honest employment, and to desert a group of professional colleagues who are able, upright, and loyal...
...corpulency and is below medium height. But his iron-grey hair, his penetrating eyes and his smiling countenance go far to give him I'air distingué. Of him his intimates say: "He is the President of the French Republic, but he is also the most simple and modest of its citizens...
...Editor of The Atlantic Monthly is one of the hardest-working and most modest of editors. He has brought a staid Boston publication to a circulation almost unbelievably large for that type of magazine.* Under his eye "The Atlantic Monthly Press" was born and is starting to flourish. The Living Age, now published from his offices, prospers. The Independent, in which he has no actual ownership, under a new group of owners and editors has moved to Massachusetts and is now making its home in the Atlantic offices under Mr. Sedgwick's benignant glances...
...Enemy Sex. This renovated version of Owen Johnson's novel, The Salamander, shows how times have changed, for the book in its time was a sensation, dealing as it did with girls who dared everything in order to accumulate a little experience. Now it seems like just a modest little evening at home, compared to all the Flaming Youth's that have lately tried to set the screen on fire. In order to put novelty into it, the heroine is made to say, with the pertinacity of a parrot, "I'm a good girl; I expect...