Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over six feet, weighs 202 lb. His brother James, also a writer and schoolteacher, is 6 ft. 4 in., an expert marksman reputed to be able to fire a shot, toss up the empty cartridge and split it in midair. His grandpa Mitch Stuart was involved in a lifelong feud with the Houndshells, in which both Houndshells and Stuarts were killed...
Steffens slurred over in his autobiography his lifelong fears that he was drying up as a writer, that his talents were failing just when he had most to say. He also left out the biggest emotional complication of his life: his love affair with a married woman (called G. in his letters), who could not divorce her invalid husband...
...Baseless is the bumptious rumor that Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) is really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess. Facts are: Frances Perkins is a Protestant Bostonian whose forbears settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago's Hull House, introduced her to her husband, then secretary to New York's reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Neither she nor her husband has ever been a genuine mill worker...
...Association of American Railroads, the New Deal shoved through a Railway Labor Act Amendment with teeth in it, set up a three-man National Mediation Board. Chairman since then has been little, alert, Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career as a railroad timekeeper and has worked for every railroad mediation body since 1920, and Otto Sternoff Beyer, who assisted Joseph Eastman when he was Transportation Coordinator. The National Mediation Board's record...
Faithful to a lifelong passion for self-effacement, O. K. Bovard kept to himself the nature of the differences with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr. It had been assumed, however, that he liked neither the Post-Dispatch's support of Landon in 1936 nor the deepening conservatism of its editorial page, for which he occasionally wrote, but over which he never had control...