Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Congressman...
Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During...
...more widely circulated American publications start on an educating crusade such as TIME has begun in a very modest way, they should . . . bring to most Americans an understanding of the other peoples of the world that may vanquish intolerance. And, thus, your nation will lead the world in providing the antidote to these periodic growing pains such as afflict the globe now. After all, they have never given education a chance. . . . Anyway, thanks for making a start...
Abraham Walkowitz, the world's most prolific portrait sitter, held an unusual one-man show last week-130 portraits of himself by 109 U.S. artists. (The show's official title, One Hundred Artists and Walkowitz, was a modest understatement...
...writer who seems to me of, at least potentially, considerable mark. . . . If this is your first book I think you ought to go on. May I ask if it is, and-you are not a lady, so perhaps you will forgive the question-are you young?" Replied modest young Hardy faintly: "Would you mind suggesting the sort of story you think I could do best...