Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brewing over the type of art to be used, the only person, in the capital who seemed to have no fixed opinions on the matter was Postmaster General Farley. Conservative Architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich who designed the building favored a classical allegory. But Edward Bruce, tireless head of the Public Works Art Project and himself a painter of some note, wanted realism. Stormed he: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building!" Aligned with Mr. Bruce and helping to create a deadlock was Fourth...
...going to throw my library into the Isar." Though he is German to the marrow, Spengler has a passion for Italy, visits it whenever he can. Heavyset, strong-featured, with big ears and an impressively high bald head, Spengler at 53 still has great physical vigor, delights in tireless mountaineering and long hikes, likes to converse with peasants, whose quips and saws he collects with fervor, repeats with gusto...
...with the New York Yankees. He presented the ring to Murdoch, only Ranger to play in each and every one of the team's 400 games, an unheard-of record in hockey. In eight seasons he had suffered nothing worse than flesh gashes and lost teeth. A strong, tireless skater, he has gained 20 lb. during his Ranger career. His most famed exploit was making three goals within a minute in a game against Boston. One of the goals, however, was nullified because he stepped on the puck...
...horses and no faith in his own tips, he soon dropped the $3,000,000 he had so quickly acquired. But he learned enough about sucker psychology to follow his true calling. And it was not long before he was rated the most successful and the most tireless stock swindler...
Soviet Russians like their dancers to be athletes, tireless as machines. Tatiana Vecheslova and Vachtang Chabukani, so important in Leningrad that they are permitted to get on the front end of street cars along with pregnant women, had come to the U. S. as the Soviet's first artistic delegation...