Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organize a "Bar of the United States," composed of lawyers in Federal practice pledged to all law enforcement including Prohibition. Charles William Freeman headed the organizing committee, with William R. Vallance, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State and president of the Federal Bar Association, as chief assistant. Only "earnest advocates" of law enforcement are eligible, though on Prohibition, "personal beliefs" would not be considered...
...Manhattan teacher. Cinemactor Ray takes two lessons a day when in town. At present he is touring with a vaudeville act in which he sings and plays the piano. It is a comedy act but now the famed Ray grin is just a mask for a great and earnest purpose. He practices for opera in his dressing room with a portable, collapsible piano...
...Soglow ambitions are modest. He confines himself to vignettes. Sometimes they are smokily morbid, but the artist is more often impelled to bitter Hogarthian humor. As a regular contributor to the New Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently...
Three-fold was Editor Kendall s attack on testimonials. First he got an article from Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed literary critic and exponent of advertising.* Under the title: "Lucky Strikes Save Florida's Crew," Mr. Calkins deplored the fact that Hero George Fried had hardly docked before he was endorsing Lucky Strikes via radio and newspapers. It is Mr. Calkins' agency that has created the famed Fire Demon in the Hartford Fire Insurance advertisements; to the testimonial demon Mr. Calkins is equally antagonistic...
...EARNEST ELMO CALKINS, President, Calkins & Holden: " TIME Newsmagazine, original, individual, independent, sometimes cocky but never dull, copying no other pattern but creating its own form and a language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...