Word: individualist
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...mission, lean, tough Captain Eddie Rickenbacker has been making speeches which compared the spirit and fighting of U.S. soldiers in the South Pacific with the work and zeal of U.S. labor in the factories at home. In the blunt phrases of Captain Eddie-the archetype of the U.S. rugged individualist-U.S. labor has always come off a very poor second...
Reporting now to the nation at large, Davies said he spoke as an "American lawyer, a capitalist and an individualist who believes that our system of government and our competitive society of free and fair enterprise are the best devised by mankind...
Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed...
...look back upon my undergraduate days in what was about the middle period of the CRIMSON I have the sense that the University opened to us a wonderfully free individualist experience. Extreme individualism was the thing. But in its free and, as the outsider thought, indifferent manner, the University managed to make clear enough to us that each owed for his freedom and for this individualism a high sense of responsibility and an understanding of what excellence...
...mind the great blessing of Harvard training in free individualist responsibility is its unbinding us from any narrowing systems of thought or limiting habits of mind and thus freeing us each and all to mold our ideas and temper our feelings so that we may unify ourselves with all elements of strength in our country. Only through that unity among all our countrymen may there develop the highest energy of all parts of our national life for the great effort that our country now must make...