Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unorthodox. Working his way through Southern Methodist University (1924-28), he sold so much advertising for the students' annual April Fool paper (he made $1,000 for himself in two weeks) that the University abolished the paper, on the grounds that big business was not a suitable student endeavor. He went on to law school at Texas University, where he became so engrossed in earning his keep that he never got around to becoming a lawyer...
...feel just like Alice in Wonderland." Other Oscars: to Cinema's man of the year, James Cagney (in Yankee Doodle Dandy); to the best supporting actor, Lieut. Van Heflin (in Johnny Eager). Said a message from Franklin D. Roosevelt: "In total war, motion pictures, like all other human endeavor, have an important part to play in the struggle for freedom and survival of democracy...
...field of endeavor finds him as active and constructive as he was in the past...
There is real work--interesting work--to be done here and the ultimate assignments for those who make the grade are worth the utmost in endeavor. And not the least proof of this lies in our letters from graduates serving now in many parts of the world...
Frank taught Mencken how to bite enemies in what Mencken calls the "caboose." Then Frank nearly blew up after trying to eat ten bushels of oats, and young Mencken joined the Y.M.C.A. There he learned to distrust "Christian endeavor in all its forms" and moved hastily on to Baltimore Polytechnic. The Polytechnic taught him 1) that philanthropy was "a purely imaginary quantity, like demi-virginity or one glass of beer," and 2) that the eager curiosity of growing boys was not to be satisfied by anatomy classes in which "all the abdomen south of the umbilicus was represented...