Word: overmodest
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What Hubbell did say on the telephone from prison, it turns out, was, "The reality is, it's just not easy to do business with me while I'm here." That is an innocuous enough statement, although perhaps overmodest, since, according to the newest indictment, the sort of consulting that brought Hubbell hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees from friends of the White House involved so little actual work it could have been done easily from the isolation hole on Devil's Island...
Undogmatic, Uncommitted. Dr. Redlich was being overmodest; the appointment was as much a tribute to his personal qualities. Originally Fritz Karl Redlich, he fled Vienna and Nazism in 1938 because of his partly Jewish ancestry. During World War II, he anglicized his name after being told, "You can't be named Fritz like every prisoner of war." But he still signs letters "Fritz" and uses it on popular books...
From the start, conservative Philadelphia businessmen admired classic models (later covered by fig leaves); artists wanted their nature in the raw. In 1795 Artist Peale had struck the first blow for the artists, heroically stripped to the skin when an overmodest baker, hired as a model, refused to take off his breeches. But even with Peale's influence, a life class was not put in the academy's curriculum until 1812. Nudity also ended the academy's Golden Age, the decade 1876-86, when the school was dominated by Thomas Eakins. He revolutionized art teaching, insisted that...
...Unionist Harry Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that men have been too impertinent and women overmodest." Dr. Edith agreed...
...biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk that night that even teetotaling Harry Earnshaw lost count over endless glasses of lemonade...