Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...
George's comedy is always pretty much the same routine, but his tireless friends are convulsed. He never seems to run out of funny things to say-scrupulously never tells anything off-color...
...born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...
Mabel Dodge Luhan, arty salon keeper and tireless tell-all (Intimate Memories, et al.), broke out in glittery Town & Country: "I am going to tell you some things about grandmothers. I am one. . . . Their day is over. . . . Nobody wants them. . . . What are they to do?" Simple: they should "love more rather than less as time goes on . . . It is a solution for me, so why cannot it be for others . . . ? I am having a fine time loving people. . . . Sexagenarian Luhan has been married four times-currently to Taos Indian Tony Luhan...