Word: modeste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
...redhaired, Maine-born Manhattan lawyer, Charles Shipman Payson (whose wife is Jock Whitney's sister Joan) started it all when he started Commentator four years ago. In November 1939, he absorbed defunct Scribner's, and about that time he hired as an assistant editor a modest, handsome young Westerner, George Eggleston, who had worked on the late College Humor, the old Life and the late Listener's Digest...
Aram (rhymes with a bomb) Garoghlanian (pronounced "Gar, pause, oghlan, slight pause, ian") is the narrator, for William Saroyan, of 14 semi-autobiographical semi-stories of an Armenian childhood in Fresno, Calif. They are, in their modest way, the best writing William Saroyan has done. But like all Saroyan's work, they are likable or loathsome, depending on the reader's taste...
Most of the group had graduated from college in their teens, got modest jobs as teachers, writers, doctors, lawyers, secretaries, housewives. Most successful: Dr. Eugene Lozner, 26, an authority on nutrition. None was unemployed. But they had many a complaint of social maladjustment...
...movie industry counts a dozen legitimate producers in place of the 38 operating during the bonanza days. Leading the list is Grovas-Oro Films, bossed by Jesus Grovas, a veteran with 25 years' experience in the Paramount and M. G. M. distributing offices in Mexico City. Modest, unassuming Grovas is an expert on foreign distribution. His production specialist is a young lawyer, Juan Bustillo Oro, noted for his knack of sensing the current appetite of Latin-American cinemaudiences. Grovas-Oro's En Tiempos de Don Porfirio (In the Times of Diaz) broke all box-office records for Mexican...