Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and son of the late Robert Worth Bingham, onetime ambassador to Great Britain...
They are doing a fine job. "Fender Alley," Mill Street between Winthrop and Lowell Houses, is being thoroughly worked over nightly by efficient tow-trucks and earnest tag-bearing policemen. The Elbery Garage is full of student cars waiting for their owners t reclaim them--and pay fat discouraging fees. The no parking ordinance makes fine sense for the men who own garages; the people who own cars find it tougher to understand...
...have a real gold mine. Very nicely decked out in some colorful Edwardian costumes, Connaught O'Connell and Lydia Hurd were properly biting and caustic as the staunch man-lover an man-loather, respectively. The Edith of Jane Johnson was reminiscent of Pamela Brown in "The Importance of Being Earnest," and Miss Johnson could hardly be paid a better compliment...
...year he made enough money selling children's swings, and later electric drills, to start himself out at the University of Washington. He had become a serious young man, a reader of H. L. Mencken's green-covered American Mercury-not a radical, merely an earnest explorer of panaceas for the common man. Then father's health began to fail...
...their method is too much like the old adage of 'burning down the house to get rid of the rats'. . . We regret deeply that some of our fellow citizens, our friends and neighbors, have seen fit to organize a Ku Klux Klan in Thomson ... it is our earnest hope that these our friends will soon come to see the Klan idea for what we honestly believe it to be, a dangerous mistake...