Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fact is the sun compass was invented for Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd by unassuming, expert Chief Cartographer Alfred H. Bumstead of the National Geographic Society. The worthy Admiral has publicly said that without it he could never have reached the Poles. Modest Cartographer Bumstead would never tell you this himself...
...Hollywood, always on the lookout for new and interesting personalities, began to take note of one who called himself John Montague. Handsome, debonair and genial, Montague would have been a welcome addition to Hollywood for his social talents alone. He had other ones as well. He was so modest that, in a community where a private telephone number is considered the ultimate in self-effacement, he not only demurely refused to reveal the source of his apparently lavish income but firmly refused to have his picture taken, politely smashing the cameras of photographers who tried it. Where chivalry is rare...
...Baker, who made him First National's president in 1922. Humorous, levelheaded, liberal, in 20 years he has used his talent for public pleading only once, but then effectively, when he swayed U. S. bankers into a truce with the New Deal (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Persistently modest about his second profession, he remarked on his retirement last winter: "There are four or five men in there who are better bankers than...
...College (Chester). Prettiest new face was that of blonde Mary Lewis, a crack adwoman whose copy ("Buy American Cotton") for Manhattan's Best & Co. was so good that she became its vice president at 32. Not a college graduate, Miss Lewis got her L.H.M. from Russell Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic Rosary College (River Forest, Ill.) at a special White House presentation while the President looked on. A similar courtesy was extended to ailing Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty...
...supersede all previous insurance laws in Illinois. Swart Governor Homer called it "one of the finest pieces of constructive workmanship for the protection of policyholders in the U. S." The code has been so universally praised, in fact, that last week State Insurance Department officials could well afford the modest protest that it was "no Magna Charta...