Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edwin Fremont Ladd, senior Senator from North Dakota, progenitor of eight children including two sets of twins. William H. King of Utah confesses to one pair of twins, born last Summer while he was abroad with Senator Ladd. Lynn J. Frazier, the other Senator from North Dakota, has one modest set of twins to his credit. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, elected by the Ku Klux Klan, but not yet seated in Congress, is in a like case. Representative Arthur Monroe Free of San Jose, Calif., matches Senator Ladd's record with two sets of twins. But he totals only...
...France's affection. Neglected graves are soon forgotten, but fresh, well cared for ones can never be. Thirty thousand headstones, tended by native Frenchmen, should do more toward promoting peace than a dozen disarmament conferences. Major Foster says, "...Nothing could be more impressive than the peaceful effect of the modest white stones showing against the green turf under the shade of protecting trees." It is the French, not the Americans, who will be the more impressed. They will have the reminders always before their eyes...
...modest Secretary was not to escape so easily, however. " A beautiful bobbed-haired girl" approached the box, and with the spotlight playing on her and the Secretary, she sang: "We Love You, Andy...
...hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle and other beetles. Fabre struggled for nearly 40 years, teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that would allow him to devote himself wholly to his insect friends. At last, in 1879, he was able to buy some arid wasteland, called by the peasants harmas (worthless), at Serignan, a village in Provence. There in a small stucco cottage he lived till his death, a gentle...
Obviously this new Stage Guild in Boston cannot do its job unless the desired public seeks the Peabody Playhouse even at a little inconvenience and, one by one, lays its dollar on the sill of the box-office. (For so modest and considerate is the price.) As obviously, the Guild cannot depend upon the ordinary playgoing public hereabouts. Otherwise, "regular" theatres would be housing "Ambush" and "March Hares" Little interested in so serious, sane, unselfish an undertaking are the highbrows by trademark. Encouragement in word, support in deed, must come from that younger public which would take its pleasure...