Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid echoes of recent Russo-Japanese border fighting and with the general European situation anything but halcyon, the note of friendship struck at the London Naval Conference loses nothing by contrast. Indeed, the Davis-Eden exchange of assurances is perhaps the only clearly perceivable result of many months of arduous but ineffectual labor...
There is a long and arduous preparation for the entrance of the five. It is conducted by Joan Hersholt, giving us a Dr. Dafoe who struggles valiantly and gently for human life in every emergency, but can't remember to take the price tags off his clothes or buy his license to practice. What he needs above all is a hospital for his trusting charges, and it is the miraculous birth that comes as a providential means of answering his prayer. There are surly villians, too, and problems of love, but are automatically overthrown and solved, respectively, in the doctor...
...King's activity is of a different sort from that of the late Prince Consort Albert, who toiled night & day over the lustiest and most arduous matters of state but it does suggest that Edward VIII has stuff in him likely to ripen on the Throne. No woman has ever pleased Majesty unless she was what King Edward calls "snappy" - that is, active, a good dancer, ebullient, high-strung. In horses he has the same taste and the number of ebullient horses which have fallen with His Majesty, spraining his ankle, breaking his collarbone, once kicking him squarely...
...amplifications of small hints in other writers, but always it is undertaken by a relentless and remorseless analyst, who is also a passionate advocate arguing as soberly as is humanly possible the importance of his experiment, which is in itself a bold undertaking, since few enterprises are so arduous and thankless as criticism of a contemporary
...until last week did the long, arduous and honorable public career of Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier become notable to the rest of the British Empire. Son of an English vicar, Sir Selwyn won intramural fame as a classical scholar at Cambridge, spent four years as a humble schoolmaster before entering the British colonial service in Nigeria in 1906. While in West Africa he rose from Assistant Resident, Northern Nigeria to Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. By last week he was safe in comfortable anonymity as King George's representative in St. Vincent, British West Indies. Last week...