Word: immodest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to dictate a novel to Tatyana, speaking the words so "unevenly and hurriedly" that she felt she was "doing something immodest" in hearing them. In the winter of 1864 he nervously read the beginning of the novel, War and Peace, aloud to a few friends; soon after, the first section appeared in the magazine Russky Vestnik, under the title 1805. "[It] still seems a little weak," said Author Tolstoy apologetically. "It will probably go unnoticed...
Louise, finding an artificial leg cumbersome (her leg was cut off above the knee), grew up mostly on crutches, which became "almost anatomical." She permits herself "one immodest, extravagant vanity . . . the conviction that no one in the world can handle a pair of crutches better than I." On crutches, she learned to play tennis well enough to beat some of her boy friends and compete in junior tournaments. She also danced (on one crutch), skated, skied, hiked. At Pomona College, she became a skilled horsewoman, captained her class swimming team...
...stormy night in January, 1764, Harvard Hall was burned to the ground. The collection was reduced to the immodest total of 404 volumes. Of these, only one, "The Christian Warfare Against the Devil, World, and Flest," can definitely be identified as having belonged to the original John Harvard collection. Another Harvard Hall was erected in 1766, where the library shared floorspace with a kitchen...
Rule 7. He must let someone else, preferably the electorate, decide to make him a candidate. Unabashed seeking of the Presidency is still considered immodest. The decent, in fact the only permissible procedure is to be drafted, as Franklin Roosevelt in 1940, even if it taxes all the candidate's skill to engineer the draft...
...that the law interfered and shut down all Manhattan's burlesque houses, including Minsky's. But true to the tradition that "You can't keep a good thing down," the operators re-opened their theatres a few years later as Girly Shows and Follies and continued in their merry, immodest way. Last month, however, a more serious black-out threatened burlesque and the entertainment world in general when License Commissioner Moss of New York refused to renew operating permits for the Gaiety, Eltinge, and Republic Theatres, present purveyors of mid-town burlesque...