Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago detectives readily identified the three corpses as what remained of John Scalise, Albert Anselmi and Joseph Guinta, gangsters all. Scalise and Anselmi were professional assassins, members of the modest remainder of Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone's once-invincible "mob." They had wriggled through three murder trials to freedom. For the mowing down of seven members of the George ("Bugs") Moran gang on St. Valentine's Day (TIME, Feb. 25), Scalise had been indicted, had obtained temporary freedom the fortnight prior on $50,000 bail...
Tory speakers, depressed by this possibility, last week devoted as much time to the agile Welshman as to their Socialist opponents. Bland, moonfaced Winston Churchill, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose modest suggestion of a fourpenny (8?) reduction in the tax on tea has been received by the electorate as very cold pie indeed compared to the Liberal mouth-watering promises of Lloyd George, was particularly bitter...
...fashionable St. Thomas he placed two lovers' knots in Gothic tracery, one of them cleverly modeled to reveal a dollar sign. Great was the resulting furor. Sedate parishioners still deny that the sign is there. Architect Goodhue was mercurial, head strong, prone to sudden anger but fundamentally affectionate, modest, shy. His beliefs were unorthodox, his moral scruples of painful intensity. His ashes now rest in a magnificent tomb in the Chapel of the Intercession. On the surface carved in bas-relief by Lee Lawrie is his image lying in state like the images above the tombs of ancient Gothic...
...many of $5,000 and upwards. . . . To enable the school's friends to make such gifts a program has been worked out so that subscriptions may be made payable over a period of five years. . . ." Such big-figured talk dismayed most young alumnae-solicitors with modest-salaried brothers and husbands. But they set bravely to work for the cause of genteel education. To elicit contributions they prepared an inventory of Spence's educational assets in terms of the teachers who helped make Spence famous. Miss Grace A. McElroy, who used to be Miss Spence's secretary...
...most modest man, Mr. Baker had discouraged all efforts to recognize his services in this fashion. Since last September the medal had been waiting for him but, until last week, he kept out of Washington to avoid its acceptance...