Word: selflessly
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...unpretty toughness and raw emotional power of The Men, the film moves slickly on a sentimental journey past soap-opera landmarks. Veteran Kennedy must choose between living supinely on a sinecure provided by his prewar fiancee's wealthy father, or striking out independently with the help of a selfless girl (Peggy Dow) who loves him. The choice, and the plot maneuverings leading up to it, are never in doubt...
John Crosby, the New York Herald Tribune's sometimes acid critic of radio & TV, gave readers of his column a notable demonstration of selfless critical impartiality last week. In the course of a discussion of teen-age shows on television, Crosby mentioned Jimmy Elaine's Junior Edition, "a show I've watched more often than would be my normal won't simply because my wife, Mary Crosby, happens...
Died. Carla de Martini Toscanini, 73, wife of the famed conductor and one of the musical world's "most important second fiddles," who for 54 selfless years cut the Maestro's hair, cooked for him, attended to all the daily drudgeries which he hated; of a heart attack; in Milan, Italy...
...some of the other character contrasts among the committee members, a humanitarian labor leader of the old schoolwithout a trace of "class warfare" in his philosophyis pitted against a sloganeering Communist, and a dowdy but selfless schoolmarm is set off against a poisonous nymphomaniac...
Hamilton, court-appointed and serving without pay, spoke for three hours, making a plea for pity and understanding of his client. He described Gold as the "most selfless man I have ever met in my entire life." He characterized him as a man who had often borrowed money from loan agencies to lend to fellow employees in need. He said that Gold had received no money from Russia, had entered the Soviet web believing that he was helping an ally. After that "he was entrapped...