Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the U. S. heard a great noise. It was the sum of many voices: the burnished periods of Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 11); the hoarse, earnest voice of Wendell Willkie (see p. 12); the tragic solemnity of John L. Lewis (see p. 18); the twanging, drawling, rasping, dry voice of the U. S. in campaign conversation...
...principle behind the dispute was the same principle which has won Director Kanin, onetime handyman for Broadway Producer George Abbott, his letter in Hollywood after only three years. Earnest and honest in his work, he is a dissenter from the old director's trick of stamping films with a personal emblem like the Lubitsch "touch." The quick Kanin success has been based on the un-Hollywood device of taking the performers' personalities out of a screen play, centering the emphasis on the development of the author's characters...
...evils of city government. Any system can be abused by those in control; in the end an alert electorate is the only safeguard of reform. If Plan E carries the election next wek, its supporters cannot afford to lay down their arms. Only then will the fight begin in earnest...
...week's end two Jews who had helped rule the land, onetime Premier Léon Blum and onetime Colonial and Interior Minister Georges Mandel, were haled before the judges of Riom as the "war guilt" trials began in earnest...
...Postponed the concordat proposed in 1937 to unite the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Churches. Nevertheless, for the first time at a General Convention, the Episcopalians held a joint mass meeting with Presbyterians. Cried the Presbyterians' Moderator, Dr. William Lindsay Young (a fraternal delegate at the convention): "My earnest prayer tonight is that I may live to stand before you some time and address, not your church, not my church, but our church...