Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venerable Sir Herbert Samuel Holt. 74, who migrated from Dublin, Ireland, at 19. He is considered Canada's richest man, but his wealth has come from no single accomplishment. It represents his profits from a long association with Canada's industrialization. He was one of the leaders in the tireless group who built the Canadian Pacific. So soon as the last spike was driven, Sir Herbert went to South America and built the Trans-Andean railroad. After this interlude he returned to Montreal, battled for light and gas companies, in 1908 became president of the Royal Bank of Canada...
...taken this position and carried out his assignments well. His light seems to have been hidden under a bushel so far and it would not be at all surprising to see him combining with Giddens and Wood before the season is much older. Everett is a fast skater, tireless worker, always ready to give and take, a player of the type of Chan Hilliard, the University Club's crack wingman. This forward combination should produce the needed scoring punch and assume the role of a "dynamite line" for the Crimson forces...
Damn Your Honor was conceived by Bayard Veiller, a tireless practitioner of the grapeshot-&-canister style of playwriting, and Becky Gardiner, recruited from the heroic reaches of cinemaland. It has a piratical hero named La Tour (John Halliday), a high-born heroine named Cydalyse (Jessie Royce Landis), five settings by Lee Simonson depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers...