Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Word from Home. In Des Moines, canny State Representative Harold Nelson left a cigar box planted with corn sprouts atop his desk, felt confident that restless farmer-legislators would demand adjournment when the sprouts began to sprout...
...vaudevillian named Wilbur used to rap at the door of the Allen apartment every Sunday afternoon. Every time, Fred lectured him sternly, finally gave him $10 "for the last time." Portland once caught Wilbur before he knocked, told him Fred was out of town. Fred waited, got more & more restless. When he had worked himself into a nervous lather, Portland relented, confessed. Next Sunday Fred lectured Wilbur twice as hard, gave...
...family tree was an exfoliation of the eager 19th Century British mind. His uncle, Arnold Toynbee, economist, author of The Industrial Revolution, and possessor of a restless social conscience, died when he was only 31. But he so impressed his contemporaries that they named Toynbee Hall, first of London's East End social settlements, in his honor. Toynbee's father was a social worker. Toynbee's mother was one of the first British women to receive a college degree.* The Golden Age shed its westering light over young Toynbee in the guise of a thorough classical training...
...Grandview, Mo. immediately after the accident, had telephoned every day after he got back to Washington. Last week, flying west in the Sacred Cow on the first lap of his trip to Mexico City (see above'), he was about to see her again, but he still seemed vaguely restless. As the morning wore on he picked up the radio telephone in the plane, called her house, talked over the drone of engines to his sister, Mary Jane. He said: "Tell her I'm about a mile and a half from St. Louis-straight...
...hitched my wagon to a restless star too early in life to watch the world revolve . . . from a static point," says Hall. In the 1920s he became director of finance to the Persian Government, lived the life of Reilly in a sumptuous villa, explored the wildernesses of Turkestan, Northern India and Iraq. Later he became a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, displayed company planes in Europe, Siam, Turkey and China. In World War II, he became a colonel in the Ninth Air Force, fought at Cassino and Anzio, was shot through the leg in the invasion of Normandy...