Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...page literary essay on Wednesday. A short story that Colin could not place on Monday appeared Thursday in Les Nouvelles Littéraires. By Saturday his novel was being serialized in France-Dimanche, a sensational weekly. All week the presses roared, boosting the total printing of his book (a modest story about a group of adults who try to recapture the happy camaraderie of childhood on an estate in the Sologne region, and fail because they no longer possess the simple cruelty of children) from the original...
...ailments in Canton than he or anybody else can remember. The babies he has delivered run into thousands. Many of them have come back to him to be delivered of their own babies, and several of the second generation have come back to be delivered of the third. The modest fees that Dr. Luce has often failed to collect lie recorded and forgotten in musty ledgers. "The minute young interns start thinking about the money they're going to get in their profession," Dr. Luce now says, "that minute they start to be failures...
...Woman of Means, Peter Taylor wrote a mature and modest first book about a difficult boy-stepmother relationship. Hans Ruesch tried an offbeat background and brought off a vivid story of Eskimo manners & morals in Top of the World. Most polished of the preciousness school novels was A Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize...
...that time our modest publication carried an item noting that the editors of the Harvard "Lampoon" were indicted on--and we quote--selling and distributing obscene pamphlets--disquote. The obscene pamphlet is the October issue of that hallowed humor magazine...
...Actually, one of Foppington's most amusing lines is in Love's Last Shift. Meaning to be modest, he says: "Stop my vitals, I don't believe there are 500 women in town that ever took any notice...