Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary light, do it well. While G. K. Chesterton may have said. "What's worth doing, is worth doing poorly," you are more of a person if you are skilled along some line. In accomplishing this, do not forget that the national student leaguer, the final-clubman, and the grind all have their points...
James Thurber, whom FORTUNE describes as follows: "Thurber is madder than White. His prose is more vital, has an earthy quality refreshing in The New Yorker. Born in Columbus (39 years ago) he graduated from Ohio State University. There he is remembered as a long, lean, funny-looking grind who sat around the library all day with his hair hanging in his eyes...
...world. But he got no rest on his hard-won laurels. He was over 70 when for the last time he led an army against the French. Outnumbered four to one, he maneuvered skilfully, fought no decisive action. Tired almost to death, he went back to the daily political grind in Vienna. One morning his servant found him with his boots off at last...
...Tour de France last year and care very much who wins this year. And many a French sport lover in the provinces may see the Tour de France cyclists without undue effort because the race, starting and ending in Paris, is a four-week 2,600-mile, clockwise grind around the mountains and seacoasts that fringe the country. One day last week 60 grim-faced entrants, jockey caps pulled low and rumps raised high, whizzed north down the slopes of Montmartre, bound for Lille, end of the first day's 162-mile run in France's sport-event...
...compositions are good, or mark a new phase in musical progress, they will be honorably mentioned in histories of music-which nobody will read! But if they are of no value the most enthusiastic eulogists will not be able to keep them alive. The paper mills may grind them into pulp. ... I shall not shed tears over them...