Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lance Wade, 26, ace Wing Commander of the R.A.F.; in a behind-the-line crash; in Italy. The modest Texan had a score of 25 confirmed kills, one less than the U.S. record for World...
...Modest Major Howard's combat report last week claimed only two planes destroyed, two probables and one damaged. But the Confirmation Board which passes on his report may have the unusual duty of revising a victory claim upward. Shop-talking airmen in London this week understood that Major Howard was being recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...truly modest men in show business, Jimmy spends almost nothing on himself and gives away about as much money as Clayton will let him get his hands on. He is superstitious (no hats on the bed). The nearest he ever comes to telling a dirty joke, either on or off stage, is his standard wheeze about the card from his girl telling him that she has a room with running water ("You better get rid of dat Indian!"). Lou Clayton, who is not given to sentimentality, describes Jimmy as "the sweetest god damned guy that ever lived...
...modest apartment on the eleventh floor of the Latino-Americana apartments in Mexico City, Jules Romains is at work on the 13th volume of Men of Good Will. He has been writing his vast serial for 13 year. He writes in longhand on his mahogany desk in the combination dining and living room, his back to the window that overlooks Mexico City to the south and, beyond it, the mountain ranges hemming in the Valley of Mexico. For six or seven hours each day, he traces out the involved characters and the complicated situations of the giant novel that already...
Neighborhood associations sweep the city streets, and school authorities, business firms, even Government ministries, do their own house cleaning. Thousands of small Tokyo shops have been closed; remaining stores have "rather modest" displays of goods...