Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watch the goings on, "was struck several times." ¶ A brash Yankee prisoner, brought up for interrogation, pulls hair out of the tail of Jackson's horse. When Jackson demands to know why, the prisoner explains that each hair is worth a dollar in New York. Mild, modest Jackson, victor of a dozen battles, blushes at the compliment like a girl...
...Force had to concede to the Navy not only ship-based aircraft but also the vital mission of antisubmarine patrol and protection of shipping, and a modest quota of air transport-mostly with land-based planes. The Marine Corps would have the third air force, both ship-and land-based, for tactical support of its troops...
...week's end, modest Ramadier quietly let it be known that he expected to form a government including Communists, Socialists, Radicals and right-wing independents. The M.R.P. was reluctant to join a Cabinet which would have a Communist as Defense Minister...
...story is as breathlessly helter-skelter as most Chandler yarns. Unlike most, it strews only a modest number of red herrings and thus makes reasonable sense at the fadeout. Detective Montgomery is hired by a glamorous crime-fiction editor (Audrey Totter) to track down the missing wife of her publisher-boss (Leon Ames). The lady of the title never appears in the film because she is dead at the bottom of a lake. Before Montgomery finally catches up with the killer-and with love-he has bulled his way through brass knuckles, a moldy jail, various sinister strangers, venal policemen...
...farm community, is clumsy and underdeveloped. The author, who is anonymous, handles the dialogue with assurance, but otherwise his style is labored and often descends to jargon. A. G. Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control a breakaway imagination. In discussing an innocuous, modest film he manages not only to give a short history of French and Russian motion pictures but to drag in such assorted people as Dostoievski, Gogol, Daphne du Maurier, and T. S. Eliot...