Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady behind all this--the Mrs. Lee whose check created the Department is 1939--is still very active in her lifelong hobby of legal medicine. Not only has "Granma" Lee taught the Department many of its tricks, but she has spent much of her time making a gallery of 15 exact doll-models of scenes from actual crime cases...
...John Bigelow (1817-1911), editor with William Cullen Bryant of the N.Y. Evening Post, Civil War consul to France and one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a lifelong man-behind-the-scenes. Historians had left him there...
...Power. Actually, no real biography of Stalin is yet possible. How did he feel when his lifelong colleagues were sentenced to death in the Moscow trials? What did he say when his treaty partner, Hitler, attacked Russia? No one in a position to speak freely knows, and until such questions are answered, all a biographer can do is to rework the public record. Biographer Deutscher, an ex-Communist who now writes for British weeklies, has done this with taste and scholarship. Though less exciting and brilliant than Trotsky's acrid biography of Stalin, Deutscher's book is more...
...Putnam's translation, Cervantes' style proves in English to be what it is in Spanish: one of the easiest, surest and most varied ever set to paper. Cervantes did not use his poetic gifts as directly as Shakespeare did, yet in a lifelong struggle to shake his talents loose, he found a loving patience and a kind irony that made him at last the deepest, widest humorist who ever wrote...
...voter, taxpayer and lifelong resident of Washington state. I voted for assistance to the aged and blind people in this state. I did not do so "with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot," as you say. I am not a recipient of old-age assistance. You are a damn liar...