Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ireland again to write about American soldiers stationed there. He followed some of those same soldiers into North Africa. His present plan: to stay in North Africa awhile, to decide where he will go next only when he knows where the news will be hottest next. He is restless already...
Jessel's first marriage, to Actress Florence Courtney, broke up when she got religion and he got restless. His second marriage, also to Florence Courtney, broke up after Jessel met "the one great love that you never find a second time"-Cinemactress Norma Talmadge. After an ecstatic beginning, that marriage foundered too. Concerning his fourth unsuccessful marriage, to 16-year-old Lois Andrew, Jessel quotes a remark attributed to the lady: "He's not too old for me, but I'm too young...
...sculpture as in life, the figure of Thomas Jefferson contains no repose. He was a tall and restless man, redheaded, lean, gangling, with a frontiersman's hard body and a philosopher's brooding brow. The statue by Sculptor Rudulph Evans has caught that quality: Jefferson stands erect, rebellious, staring toward the White House with strained and unyielding eyes. Around the walls above his head, his carved words stand out like a shout in the Memorial's massive silence: I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind...
...General was restless. George Smith Patton Jr., who had long ago boasted that nothing would please him so much as to get in a tank and joust, medievally and to the death, with a single tank commanded by Erwin Rommel, was now confined to a single room behind the lines by his lord and master, battle...
...restless man. A great builder and maker and shaper, a man delighting in size and height and dimensions: the world's tallest; the town's biggest. . . . A man naturally hopeful . . . foremost of all, a restless man and a believing man, a builder and maker of things and of nations...