Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Duce turned next to the serious matter of beauty contests. Acting in his capacity as Minister of the Interior (one of his 8-out-of-13 Cabinet positions) he notified all prefects of Italian provinces that "beauty contests, with their consequent naming of 'queens' and 'princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity...
With the city of Canton temporarily safe from capture by the rebel armies of Kwangsi (TIME, May 27), the Nationalist Government turned last week to face the most serious test of its three years of life...
...shine on the shoes. It is true that a large number of men do shave daily but it is hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point out that the reason Harvard "never apologises, never argues, never listens to criticism" is that she has never been fooled by the sort of distinction that appearance, manners, or artificial social orders create...
After weeks of serious illness. His Majesty George V left Bognor-on-Sea last week to go home...
...late great Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick). It made the U. S. air-minded (through the astuteness of Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune...