Word: hobbyless
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Annoying Fault. Childless and hobbyless, Wilson has loved the law only slightly longer than his wife; their golden anniversary comes in September. His age has hardly slowed him down. Since a heart attack two years ago, he has had a chauffeured Cadillac (license JJW 2), and because of a 1967 cataract operation he initially wore dark glasses under the hearing's TV lights. "He looked like the Godfather," joked one of his partners; though his eyes hurt without the glasses, he junked them "because I don't want to appear like I'm hiding behind anything...
Sabry Pasha's friends were worried about him. As always he was working too hard. The unrelaxing, hobbyless Premier began his day at 8 every morning and worked late into the night. Ever since last June, when Italy entered the war and King Farouk asked Sabry Pasha to form a coalition Cabinet, he had been worried by internal dissension. To begin with, the anti-British Wafdists accused him of pandering to London. The British, also displeased, said he was the King's pawn, and that the King was lukewarm on the war. Then when Italy invaded Egypt, extreme...
...comes to all Navy men at 64, often as cruelly and as indiscriminately as Death, retirement last week beached the old Admiral. Hobbyless, Harry Yarnell settled down to read books on the Orient, twiddle his brown thumbs, watch the sailboats off Newport...
...Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...
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