Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he went to Manhattan in 1892, he had as assets a rich baritone and a modest training in the rudiments of music. He got a scholarship at the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied under the late great Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward...
From their New River (N.C.) boot camp, some 10,000 Reserves have gone to post assignments. Recruiting has been better than in some of the other women's organizations; the Marines expect to fill their modest quota of 18,000 without trouble...
...rare deal, with the band sponsored by jazz fans--two of them in the army--who are willing to risk their modest captal on the artistic investment. Many folks around town have volunteered their services in putting the band across--John Bergen, Cambridge artist, has begun a series of cards to be placed at the tables as part of a promotional scheme aimed at people who aren't quite sure of what dixieland jazz is all about...
...packed with shipments to the Pacific war zone, profits rocketed to $15,205,421, two and a half times those of 1942 and 22 times those of 1941. Against this, the rise in New York Central earnings to $62,729,230 v. $49,082,182 in 1942 seemed comparatively modest, and the sharp drop in Pennsylvania profits to $85,500,000 ($101,468,792 in 1942) seemed almost poor...
...Book. Fannie's latest novel (Hallelujah; Harper; $2.50) is a rather abstruse triangle. Lily Browne, a widow, seemed "a startled-looking little girl, whose round hat with ribbons would be forever slipping backward on her head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality...