Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duke's 54th birthday at the Stork Club, next day sailed off for their occasional home in France, with a modest retinue and 120 pieces of luggage...
...Albans, founded by monks in 948, is one of England's oldest schools (St. Peter's, York, founded in the 6th Century, is generally regarded as the oldest). Long out-glittered by Eton and Harrow, St. Albans has kept to its modest tradition of service to the boys of the town...
...against its long list of futile endeavors, the United Nations could point to a few modest successes. One was the truce agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Last week that small star in U.N.'s crown was fading fast...
...gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen...
Four Faces West. Harry Sherman's modest, attractive picture of the Southwest; with Joel McCrea, Charles Bickford, Frances Dee (TIME...