Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ducats from the King. Last week in Granada, Zurbaran was having his first public exhibit since 1905. A small, handsome and tireless woman named Maria Luisa Caturla had helped to collect 60-odd paintings and bring them to Granada for a show. By poking into old monasteries and crumbling castles, Art Lover Caturla had found eight that were entirely unknown to the outside world. There was a child Jesus sitting with a crown of thorns in his lap, a warmly devout Santa Eufemia, and The Holy Family clustered around a bowl of fruit. Among other outstanding works in the show...
Eventually the weights went out of fashion until, before World War I, a tiny, tireless old British lady named Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott began to collect them. By the time she died in 1938, she owned more than 450, and not one had cost her more than $125. Just before World War II, many collectors got interested and prices began to climb. By last week, Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott's collection had been auctioned off in London. Total price: about $50,000. No one knows how many more weights were brought back by tourists to Britain...
Citation: "France's leading economic planner; tireless and lifelong advocate of constructive relationships of honest men and honest governments . . . citizen whose vision transcends national boundaries in the interests of all free men and all free institutions...
...also wore out his traveling companions by giving U.S. bases the same tireless and detailed inspection he had once given his G.M. plants. Aboard the U.S.S. Midway in the Mediterranean, he led his party up & down an endless series of ladders, finally stopped to stick his head into the ship's machine shop. In an industrial machine shop, the filings always fly when the boss comes through, but on the Midway, well-disciplined sailors were standing at attention by idle machines carefully shined up for inspection. Boomed Engine Charlie: "Where are the chips...
...bouncy, tireless man-about-town to the end, Eddie Marsh started collecting pictures at the turn of the century, kept at it with unmatched zeal until he died. He was not a wealthy man, but his mother had left him a modest annuity and he devoted...