Word: thanklessness
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With the coming to power of Roosevelt II, Pat Harrison was recast in the thankless and inappropriate role of defender of the pretensions, incompetence and mistakes of the Democrats. Trusted by all his colleagues, and loyal without limit to his party, he remained faithful, not only when the President kept him from becoming majority leader, but even when the White House double-crossed him on legislative matters. As chairman of the Finance Committee, he steered through the Senate New Deal legislation which made him wince and blink-a man as loyal as he was able...
Indirectly, Valedictorian Martin confessed that the job of Stock Exchange president was hopeless and thankless. Nobody knew whom the president was supposed to represent or what he was supposed to do. But fate had provided Bill Martin with a face-saving exit. Disinclined to plead exemption on the ground that his job is of civil importance, he is prepared to be drafted as soon as his number comes up (probably in May). Wall Street's Boy Wonder of 1938 is 1941's most willing draftee...
...about ten days." To the credit of tall, slender, wavy-dark-brown-haired Oustee Whitaker is a recent realistic work Americas to the South (Macmillan; $2.50), which he wrote on a tour of duty for the Daily News in South America (1938-39) before he was given the thankless Rome trick...
...bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand it." But at the end of a year he had mastered this 30-minute-long chaos of caterwauling...
Steam Off. Best valve available last week through which to blow off angry popular steam was old Mr. Chamberlain. The London Times bade him good-by by acknowledging that for more than three years he bore "a load of responsibility as heavy and thankless as any that was ever carried by a British Prime Minister. ..." Not so gallant, angry British masses have for months wanted him to take his umbrella, tuck it under his arm, and go back to manufacturing brass bedsteads in Birmingham. For in the British public mind, man and umbrella have come to symbolize...