Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...England ancestry, as unintoxicating as ice water, but something new. Today, though it does not compete with the box office of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Martha Graham's glamorless dance counts a big audience from coast to coast, a huge following of high-minded, earnest, mop-haired disciples who treat their art as if it were the successor of the Greek or Elizabethan drama...
Last week earnest, spectacled Dr. Alvin Johnson, director of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, was trying to save some of Europe's un-blown-out brains. He had already succeeded in evacuating many of Germany's best scholars. Last week he and the U. S. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars were after those trapped in France. Not since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 drove eastern scholars into western Europe has there been such a wholesale migration of culture...
National Defense Minister Colonel J. (for James) L. (for Lay ton) Ralston reported to the House of Commons in Ottawa on the senior Dominion's progress. Earnest in appearance, soft of voice, brisk of manner, like a hornet for energy (he has worked between 16 and 20 hours a day for the last month), J. L. Ralston is widely considered the ablest man in Canada's wartime Government and the one most likely to succeed Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. His report glowed...
...Deer Lake Theatre on the outskirts of Pennsylvania's hard-coal district. Cast as "Princess Kalima," the hula dancer in The Barker (with silent cinema stars James Kirkwood and Lila Lee), the shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string in the third...
With the Guide Books almost finished after five years' labor, WPA authors really buckled down in earnest last week to a new project-WPA Factbooks. The Fact-books are supposed to be completed in 18 months, will sell for about $1, will be bound in durable but removable covers so that more facts can be added yearly. They will contain concrete and succinct data about whatever localities may wish to sponsor the Factbook project. Among other facts will be summaries of the work of the New Deal agencies-pretty good propaganda for the New Deal, quibblers pointed...