Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naval Reductions. "Conversations have commenced . . . earnest hope...
...Prime Minister Radoslavoff, always pro-German, who took Bulgaria into the War on the German side when most Bulgarians were in favor of neutrality. It was Prime Minister Radoslavoff, occasionally farsighted, who refused (he now says) to declare war on the U. S. against the earnest entreaties of temperamental General von Ludendorff...
PLEASE CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION AND DROP ME FROM YOUR MAILING LIST ISSUE JUNE 24 PAGE 43 STOP SUCH POOR TASTE IN SELECTION OF BOOKS FOR REVIEW UNPARDONABLE DESTROYS WORK AND UNDERSTANDING ACCOMPLISHED TO DATE BETWEEN RACES AND CAN ONLY BE CONDEMNED BY EARNEST LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES...
...some of the proud ships he now commands. Labor Sea Lord Alexander is a former Baptist lay preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty one of the most important in any government. Last week the Baptist Sea Lord studied hard...
...last week Nudism was again in the public eye. It was announced with complete gravity that suave M. Andre de Fouquieres, arbiter elegantarium, had joined the "Committee of Action" of Nudism, that he was a most earnest and enthusiastic apostle...