Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Daguerre and Morse, Photographer Hill was an artist. With tireless ingenuity and unfailing taste, he studied the character of his sitters, posed them in natural positions, supervised every detail of clothing and lighting so as to make pictures that were beautiful as well as true to life...
...later urged him to give up flying: "I don't want to be one of those generals who die in bed." His nervy, bad-weather flights did more than give him a reputation for courage; they pioneered a flight technique which every military pilot must master today. A tireless long-distance pilot, Andy Andrews several U.S. and world records (including three once held by Charles A. Lindbergh...
...huge young derelict multimillionaire with a tireless hunger for "tomatoes" (women). He spent his time making bad "artistic" movies, an alcoholic stalactite of his liver, and arranging red-light expeditions at every port of call. Longstreet has a special, affectionate felicity with the dizzy-rich, and Big Boy is one of the most amiable who ever got onto paper...
Spark plug of this achievement was Universal's pudgy, tireless Works Manager William A. Ruhl (who used to make Nash automobiles). When Universal contracted to manufacture Johnson parts last year, Bill Ruhl lacked tools and materials, had no priority status whatsoever to help get them. By airplane, train, telephone he ransacked the already overburdened machine-tool market, just as many another tool-hungry competitor was doing...
Sued for Divorce. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 65, tireless biographer of Tarzan; by Florence Gilbert Dearholt Burroughs, 36, his second wife; in Los Angeles...