Word: modest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearst Jr. is vivacious, modest but not diffident. He is married and lives in Manhattan's Ritz Tower. When he drives his special-bodied Cadillac to the American office every traffic cop grins at him gratefully, and he stops often to pass the time of day. His license plates bear the simple legend 1. The car of his beauteous young wife, San Francisco's one-time debutante Alma Walker, has the license number 2. Hearst Jr. has not forgotten his Hollywood friends; Cinemactors Norman Kerry and Charles Farrell are among his intimates. With Songwriter Irving Berlin, Lawyer Richard Knight...
...Modest, middle-aged James Henry Scullin, the new Laborite Prime Minister of Australia, moved out last week from his home in Melbourne to Canberra, the Kangaroo Continent's flat and dusty capital. Scorning what he termed "unnecessary expenditure," Mr. Scullin refused to occupy the official Prime Minister's residence, just vacated by his reactionary Nationalist predecessor Stanley Melbourne
...Just as modest was Norman J. Makin. newly appointed Speaker of the Australian Parliament. At news of his appointment he summoned reporters, announced that he would follow the precedent of previous Labor Speakers and wear neither wig nor robes in Parliament...
...first a hospital, then a medical school. The University's first president, Daniel Colt Oilman, went to Europe looking for a man who would be his first pathologist. European, savants told him to return to Manhattan and get William Henry Welch who, while practicing medicine there in a modest way, had become the U. S.'s outstanding pathologist. Dr. Welch went to Johns Hopkins in 1884 and inaugurated the first chair of pathology in America. When Johns Hopkins Hospital opened just 40 years ago, Dr. Welch had the great Howard Atwood Kelly and the late great William...
...when Elzear Wheelock made his way up the Connecticut river to found Dartmouth College. He was enthusiastic in his desire to start a school for the education of the Indians in the ways of God and the white man's civilization, little dreaming that in 150 years the modest institution would change into a college of national reputation...