Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Envoy. The man who made the Greenland deal possible was Henrik de Kauffmann, 52. When the Nazis seized Denmark last year, Minister de Kauffmann sat tight in the modest little Danish Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Slight, dapper, greying and grave-faced, he let his staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer...
After putting the Symphony on a $50,000 budget and a modest paying basis, Jim Perry turned his job over to Edwin F. ("Bully") Farr, who runs Columbia's Piggly Wiggly stores. In an account of his work in last week's Saturday Evening Post Lawyer Perry gave his successor some pointers: "Be sure to lay off opera; the most important thing about symphonies is the number of minutes it takes to play'em-hold out for the short, noisy ones . . . They got you for the same reason they hooked me-first, you are a sucker...
...great Dean Swift made his famed "Modest Proposal" for curing the economic ills of Ireland: sell its starving children as dressed meat. Last week U. S. book reviewers were in receipt of a modern modest proposal. No less grisly than the Dean's, it was not even supposed to be ironic...
...city's sidewalks and in the parks were always crowded. Gaffers 75 and over played their daily six innings of cautious baseball, and Webb's Cut Rate Store (one egg, two strips of bacon, hominy grits for breakfast, 3? ; with coffee and a doughnut, 8?) cashed their modest checks by the thousand...
...March number of the Harvard Advocate--the first issue edited by the new board--features an article by John Harding and Albert Douglas on "War Opinion at Harvard." This is a modest attempt to equate the attitudes that shape Harvard's war policies rather than to determine accurately what the majority opinion would be on any specific question. It is an enlightening appendix to a poll like those recently conducted by the Crimson and Defense, and is, within the limits it sets for itself, completely acceptable...