Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tell Me More. George Gershwin is rapidly overtaking even the tireless Irving Berlin as a contriver of jazz melodies. Ever since he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue and collected great commendation from serious critics, his every movement is listened to with interest. In this latest, there are two new ones, Tell Me More and My Fair Lady, which will exercise the springs of many a phonograph. There is also a plot about a girl who pretended she was a shop clerk to see whether her hero's love were real. Emma Haig, Andrew Tombes and Lou Holtz are, next...
...Tibbetts '17, Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House and a former follow-worker with Arthur Beane, in speaking of his death last night declared. "In the death of Arthur Beane, the University and the Phillips Brooks House have lost a faithful friend, a tireless worker, and a wise councillor. In his undergraduate days, and in his seven years at the Phillips Brooks House, the influence of his dominant personality and rugged Christian character was felt by hosts of students who look back upon him as one of the greatest influences for good in the University...
Christ Scientist, New Y,ork City, Mrs. Stetson devoted her tireless efforts. . . . But to return to Mother Goose , . .. let me quote the following from Mrs. Stetson's book...
...Managers, responsible for its choice of plays and general policy, consists of "a banker, a lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists...
...listened to the secretary's record of the previous period of traditional inaction, and passed on, serene in the accomplishment of nothing. It has also before it the record of its parent, the Council of 1923-24, which, being driven mad by the repeated goads of a few tireless souls, labored and brought forth several valuable mice among them, for example, the decision on Junior Managerships, which has since been neatly entombed somewhere in the inner sanctuaries of the H. A. A. It is within the power of this new-old Council to be a very real force...