Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Customers Be Damned. Mr. Morgenthau is very high-principled, very modest about his limited financial ability, very timid. His daring move in sticking to 2% was out of character for him but not for his New Deal advisers. Those advisers were not worried about the consequences. They are quite sure that the banks will continue to take Government offerings, at almost any price, and that they do not have to worry about giving the banks what they want. Their attitude is: This is war; the banks have to buy our offerings, they have no choice, nor any other...
...escape the edict will be the senior Prom tentatively scheduled for January 29, the night before accelerated Seniors will graduate this year. No restriction has yet been made on attendance at this dance, but in line with the recent university policy it is expected that it will be a modest affair...
...somewhat changed, more modest, even more ascetic Ben Cohen who now settled himself at practical Jimmy Byrnes's right hand-ready to draft his orders, do his leg work, feed him ideas. In the palmy middle years of the New Deal, Ben Cohen and Thomas G. ("The Cork") Corcoran were in there swinging hard for New Deal reforms. They drafted the SEC and Holding Company Acts; they helped map Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court fight, helped plot the unsuccessful 1938 political purge...
...accept Mr. Wallace's vision of 'the century of the common man' in even so modest a degree as is implied in the establishment of complete equality, of educational opportunity, of the career open to talent, of easy promotion in all walks of life from the ranks to positions of command? Victory depends on our offering the martyred nations of Europe a' cause for which to fight and die. Are we still too besotted by our terror of revolution to speak plainly the words that would convince the peoples and not merely the Governments that...
Poor MGM hasn't made a decent musical in years, and "Hattie" is no exception. Thanks to the Hays Office little remains of the original Broadway hit. Ann Sothern's modest attempts to imitate Ethel Merman's exuberance are completely frustrated by thoroughly bad direction; an incredibly obnoxious little girl named Jackie Horner should have been left in a corner; and Cole Porter's score, one of his poorest, is hampered by the addition of even worse numbers. The only relief from the tedium is Virginia O'Brien, with more material and less dead-pan, and Lena Horne, whose rendition...