Word: tirelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diligently prayerful Methodist and a tireless preacher of Spartan virtues to indulgent Chinese is enterprising Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the best man to head the Chinese Government in living memory. Last week he connected the Chicago of his country with its New Orleans, sent the first train chuffing 700 miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...
...Manhattan, where in July he played at the Lewisohn Stadium, José Iturbi brooded over the Spanish revolution, cried to newshawks, "Spain needs a strong man!" For that he was booed and picketed by the city's tireless and ubiquitous leftwingers...
...only hobby is growing orchids. Beer-guzzling has given him an enormous paunch. Thus deprived of action and sex appeal, Meet Nero Wolfe overcomes its handicaps surprisingly well, thanks to an effective performance by Edward Arnold and to the presence of Lionel Stander as Wolfe's dazed but tireless assistant...
...traveled by their American colleagues. The War, in a great degree, discovered Europe to American newspapers as a field for news. . . . The American newspaper men swarmed all over the still-ravaged territories of the European belligerents. . . . They came with their bright and cynical eyes, their calm, unworried faces, their tireless industry, their cool courage, their infinite capacity for drinks, jesting, poker and work, their insatiable curiosity, their generosity to a comrade, American or European, their professional pride, their calm assumption of equality with any king, president, statesman or newspaper reporter under...
...KING BEWARE!-Honore Morrow-Morrow ($2.50). A tireless historical romancer spins out an ambitious tale of love and politics against the turbulent background of George Ill's court on the eve of the American Revolution. For those who like to think that historical conflicts arise largely out of misunderstanding...