Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, a modest man, makes no bones about what he owes to Joe Oliver in the Chicago days: "We never had to look at each other when we played, both just thinkin' the same thing. And he's the one that stopped me playin' all those variations-what they call bebop today. 'You get yourself a lead [melody] and you stick to it,' Papa Joe told me. And I always do." It was the kind of jazz that didn't take written arrangements, if a man had "a lead" and could "cut loose from...
...Hotel Aviz, also has a palatial home in Paris and another in London. He has no art scouts, does all his purchasing by himself, or on the advice of a few trusted dealers. National Gallery officials would say nothing of Gulbenkian himself last week except that he was "extremely modest" and "a real connoisseur": one of the conditions of the loan was that there must be no personal publicity from the gallery on the subject of Calouste Gulbenkian...
Petite, fiery Elena Nikolaidi was enjoying the sensation. Reporters found her in a modest hotel on upper Broadway, with her husband Thanos Mellos and her two-year-old son Michael. She hadn't made up her mind which, if any, of the morning's offers she was going to accept. She was pleased, but not entirely surprised...
...viewpoint on Holy Communion, states that all German Protestants can partake of the sacrament in any German Protestant church. When the constitution was finally passed after five days of heated debate, Bishop Wurm declared: "The new German Evangelical Church is not yet a mighty cathedral; it is still a modest hut. But it is a hut in which the gospel is at home, and in which all brethren of the Protestant churches may live and grow together...
...laboratory of Barnwood House Mental Hospital, on the outskirts of Gloucester, England, is a modest black contraption that looks like four storage batteries set in a square. Its only visible moving parts are four small magnets, one swinging like a compass needle over each box. Psychiatrist William Ross Ashby, who built the machine, thinks that it is the closest thing to a synthetic human brain so far designed...