Word: thanklessness
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...small hints in other writers, but always it is undertaken by a relentless and remorseless analyst, who is also a passionate advocate arguing as soberly as is humanly possible the importance of his experiment, which is in itself a bold undertaking, since few enterprises are so arduous and thankless as criticism of a contemporary
...Roosevelt appointees will be scrutinized by U. S. businessmen so closely as the six governors and a chairman who must be named to the reconstituted Federal Reserve Board before next February. Theirs will be the thankless task of dousing the fire just when it begins to glow with easy money...
...right to play England in the challenge round but instead of making Captain Wear's job easier, it merely plunged him deeper into a dilemma which for the last seven years has made the captaincy of the U. S. Davis Cup team one of the most thankless in sport...
...Mercilessly heckled the new Secretary for Colonies, intellectual Malcolm MacDonald, son of demoted James Ramsay MacDonald who now holds the sinecure Lord President of the Council. Young Mr. MacDonald was saddled last week with the thankless task of defending Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's extraordinary move of letting Premier Benito Mussolini know that His Majesty's Government would have been willing to cede some British territory to Ethiopia if that Empire could have been thus induced to make concessions to Il Duce sufficient to halt his prospective colonial war (TIME, July...
...stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays expert tennis, writes longhand. Says he: "In writing for the stage there is an enormous satisfaction. . . . Adapting stories for the screen is often a thankless...