Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then 26, and had pulled himself up from $6-a-week reporter to business manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards of advertising. He was a stickler for efficiency, a pocket-sized dynamo of energy. As many as 18 hours a day he might sit at his desk, his dwarfed body perched on a high cushion, his feet touching a tall hassock beneath the desk. A half dozen visitors or subordinates usually sat in chairs around the walls, waiting their turn to talk with...
...career, changed his name, brooded, talked to his dog. When he met the dead patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo of spiritual energy, their stories began to knit together again. Like a beneficent spider Dean Harcourt sat in the midst of things, giving out his potent secret of the desperate flies that came into his parlor. His comforting message: The race of men is what counts, not the individual. Finally...
...producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
...Chancellor's last speech of the campaign was shouted from atop a dynamo in Berlin's vast Siemens & Halske electric works. To hear him by radio all German factory workers stopped work for one hour. This time-out the workers had to make up later by working an hour overtime without extra pay. "German workmen!" shouted Orator Hitler. "International conflicts are fomented by a small group of international gypsies...
With her husband momentarily out of the picture, the long-legged, smiling dynamo that is Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was given his place in the nation's headlines. Two thousand eminent men and women gave her a banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Intended as a tribute to an able woman who had achieved a career in her own right, it had the effect of retorting to criticism of her behavior as First Lady-elect: too much spotlight, too little dignity...