Word: unspectacularly
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...grey, gaunt man with downcast eyes and stooped shoulders, Cordell Hull has been moving about the Capitol for 24 years in studious preoccupation. Only his Congressional intimates know his unspectacular worth. He has never had any practical experience as a diplomat but he has read every decision handed down by the World Court. He refuses to wear spats and carry a cane, but can recite by heart every trade barrier the world over. Laconic, when asked the time he will silently exhibit his watch instead of reading it himself...
...trial balloon sent up by the national ticket. Robert Low Bacon, 48, oldtime Harvard crewman, is the son of the late Robert Bacon. Ambassador to France and Secretary of State. He is Wet. an easy-going but dogged foe of immediate Bonus payment. In Congress he has been regular, unspectacular...
Politically, President Hoover let Secretary Lamont go because the Chicagoan was of small practical help toward carrying Illinois. Mr. Lamont's Cabinet service was quiet, plodding, unspectacular. The President needs a more active, hustle- bustling figure to dramatize any business recovery, no matter how small, which might come before election. Mr. Chapin's appointment not only seemed to clinch Michigan for the Hoover-Curtis ticket but, of more importance, to open the automobile industry's money bags to the G. O. P. campaign...
...made editor, succeeding Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe who took the title editor emeritus. Dr. Howe, a cultured Canadian gentleman who walks with a painful limp, served the Eagle for 38 years. In 1915 he succeeded the late famed Dr. St. Clair McKelway as editor, made a creditable but unspectacular record. Dr. Howe will continue to write Eagle editorials at his home. Editor Rodgers, sober & industrious, has a good editor's capacity for indignation. He is well known for his books on Walt Whitman, who edited the Eagle...
...does not sound very promising, perhaps. But Authoress Cather is better than her implicit word: if she does not hold you breathless, she never lets you nod. And when you have finished her unspectacular narrative you may be somewhat surprised to realize that you have been living human history. Willa Cather's Northeast passages are never purple. Captious critics might complain that she sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When...