Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coleridge on Cologne Sirs: Confidential: re Cologne Scribbling impromptu verse was a lifelong habit of Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
Died. Louis ("Uncle Louis") Esselen, 65, tall, soft-spoken confidant and lifelong friend of the Union of South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, longtime secretary of Smuts's United Political Party, commissioner of the Union's state-owned railroads; from a heart attack; in Cape Town...
...chance, for plain U.S. readers news of his death coincided with the first news of his life. The American Scientist went to press just before his death with a translation of an article in which Dr. Vernadsky summed up his lifelong studies of the universe. Its gist: man is entering a new age in which he may become the indisputable master of nature...
Tousle-haired Andrew George Latta McNaughton, lifelong professional soldier and onetime commander of the first Canadian Army overseas, had entered politics in earnest. He had learned already that politics...
...stories present a world that is self-contained-often sadly so. An old Ford is the most up-to-date object in the book; the reader's eyes are directed into the past rather than the future. In one of the stories an old woman attains her lifelong ambition, which is to be buried in the place where she was born. In another, a kindly, drunken father spins his young daughters what seems to be simply a gay, Oriental tale, but which turns suddenly into the old man's pathetic way of reproaching his daughters for being ashamed...