Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Nellie Wallace, 78, tireless, buck-toothed British music-hall comedienne, who for nearly 40 years was a popular turn at London's famed Palladium with her shrill Cockney songs, red flannel underwear and tattered feather boa; of bronchitis, contracted the day after a performance before the King and Queen; in London...
...Journal's earnings: $38,279.) Evjue decides which stories to play, and personally covers important legislative hearings. His signed editorials, dictated in a hoarse hog-call, frequently run on Page One; the overflow of his opinions fills a column ("Hello, Wisconsin"). A teetotaler, Evjue is a tireless foe of liquor and gamblers. A deer lover, he won't let his copy desk use "sportsman" in hunting stories (in the Times, a hunter is a hunter...
Belgium's exiled King Leopold took a little time off from his tireless efforts to get back on the throne, and played some golf in Samaden, Switzerland, with wife Princess de Rethy...
Heart & Brain. That game put the Boston Braves back in the running, but not for long; they were obviously outclassed. What they lacked, among other things, was someone like tireless Lou Boudreau, the Indians' manager and shortstop, the man who would be most remembered in the 1948 Series. He was not only the brain of Cleveland's keyed-up baseball organism, he was also the heart of it. Boudreau's pick-off play (catching a runner off base) was easily the Series' most spectacular play, and an example of his drill-order perfectionism. The first time...
...these questions Amsterdam met an even stiffer stalemate than on its attempt to define the word "church." There is a great gulf between U.S. activism and continental Europe's apparently passivist theology. Most U.S. Christians, as shown by Bromley Oxnam's tireless example, believe in muscular, active Christianity-serving their faith by works. To U.S. liberal Protestantism, most European Christians have a let-George-do-it reliance...