Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April day in 1898, with the U. S. hurrying inevitably toward war with Spain, two soldiers sat lunching in Washington's Army & Navy Club. The older, serious-faced, put a question. The younger made a laughing reply. Serious-Face spoke again. Smiling-Face stopped smiling. In a moment both heads were bent together in low-toned, tense conversation...
...Story. Little Caesar is Rico, gangster, an able, hard-working author's serious attempt to put a contemporary U. S. type into U. S. literature...
...pleasingly surprised and struck by the originality (or so it seemed to me) of Subscriber Anders regarding inheritable subscriptions. Thought it was meant as an expression of Subscriber Anders' extreme appreciation of TIME and not as something to be desired. Further surprised (also pleasantly) at TIME'S serious consideration of it. TIME is thus shown as ever open to new ideas...
...proposed list must not resolve itself into a journalistic, polemic affair. It must be done with serious intentions. Every one must state exactly the reasons why he gave preference to a foreign motor car in order that these reasons may be studied and weighed...
...stands 6 ft., 1 in.; weighs a little over 185; is 23. For newsphotographers he poses willingly on horses, in trees, with dogs or cats, but never with a woman. Unmarried; he was once quoted as saying: ''Marriage is such a serious and important venture that one should contemplate it for a lifetime before deciding whether to make the plunge. That's what I'm engaged in doing...