Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...statement Engle attributed to Earnest said Mrs. Atkins removed her clothes "as soon as we got in" the farmhouse. There was a party in a second floor bedroom, the police captain said Earnest told him, and then a fierce quarrel...
Opposing John McCormack was pompous, earnest Clifton Woodrum of Roanoke, Va., a varnished, white-haired member who has championed economy by opposing all Federal expenditures which do not directly benefit Virginia. Mr. Woodrum's chances were slim: the White House wanted Mr. McCormack...
...signaling lingo for A. A. - antiaircraft) was almost unbearable, though the defense barrage was comforting. It was also expensive - ?250,000 nightly - and brought down only 3% to 5% of bagged planes. The siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole ful wail which depresses all but the most stouthearted...
...sultry sunshine, they snickered at the university's ubiquitous silk-hatted trustees, snapped up Willkie buttons from Willkiettes who handed them out in front of Houston Hall, Bicentennial headquarters. Soon a university publicity man hustled out, shooed the Willkiettes away. Conscious of his duties as a host, earnest President Gates meant to permit no discourtesy to the guest of the day: the President of the U. S. He had made short work of a testy complaint by old Mining Magnate William Guggenheim against the "special prominence" to be given Franklin Roosevelt at his alma mater's celebration. Headliner...
...history of western culture, but the present college year opens under a shadow of a threat never before present. War is not the worst possiblity we face; the worst is the complete triumph of totalitarianism, and at this moment it is sufficiently real to warrant every man's most earnest consideration...