Word: punctual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treatment begins with the immediate withdrawal of alcohol. Then the doctor must get the patient's full story; he is advised that the road to cure is long and hard, requiring patience, determination and absolute honesty. He must report to the psychiatrist's office regularly and be punctual in spite of hell, high water or "previous appointments...
Conscious of her position, Actress Cornell maintains an almost pious attitude of noblesse oblige. She never blows up. She is fanatically punctual: if her husband is not ready on time, she leaves for rehearsals alone, waits for him at the theater. Life for her is a serious business. Her manager once remarked: "If a person has no suffering or great sorrow, they just don't interest Miss Cornell...
...rainy, misty evening in Washington, 20-odd years ago, a tall, frail, aquiline man was striding hurriedly home for his punctual 7 p.m. dinner. Turning a corner, he bumped spang into another hurrying stroller, a large, portly man with walrus mustaches...
...appearances docile, even-tempered: she has all the French virtues, is genuinely kindly and cute comme un bou-ton-mais, zut alors, elle est shrewd, smart and has a will of iron. She has always worked hard, spends months preparing every role she sings at the Met,* is punctual at rehearsals...
...fringed Harvard Square for the last fifty years, only two are alive and only Max Keezer continues to keep his door open to the boulevardiers of Massachusetts Avenue. Freshmen know his name almost as soon as Sever and Hollis. His smile of welcome at the Union gate is as punctual as President Conant's official address. Unlike such romantic heroes as Copeland and Kittredge who linger just beyond the real life of undergraduates, Max Keezer is an indispensible link with the present. Even if your grandfather remembered him, you cannot think of Keezer as anything but agile and hardly more...