Word: tirelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matter of fact Dr. Irigoyen, though he reaped unpopularity as a senile despot, was famed for his frugality, austerity and tireless (if misdirected) industry?he pig-headedly insisted on reading every bill submitted for his signature...
...versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked away all the coal, he shoveled into the powder magazine, blew up everything but his indestructible self...
...done so quietly and unostentatiously that-to be Irish -we do not know he is there until after he has gone-and then we feel a sense of something having happened-the unconscious influence of a strong personality and character which somehow makes itself felt without words. Tireless and conscientious in the fulfillment of his many arduous duties all over the country, he is yet accessible to the humblest employe of the Bureau. . . . If General Hines leaves us, as a result of the new combination we shall certainly regret the day it occurred. Being Director of the Veterans' Bureau...
GREAT enterprise in the world of science applied for the benefit of the general public is too apt to become public property without the recognition of those individuals who made the achievement possible. Science has become popularized, but the tireless scientist receives meagre memorial. The journalistic Paul de Kruif has rescued many of these names from oblivion in his "Microbe Hunters" and later his "Hunger Fighter", published in 1928. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has told his own story, and has presented a picture, human and authoritative, which ranges from the log cabins of pioneer Indiana, to Harvard College...
Rheumatic pains in His Majesty's right hip ("nothing serious") kept George V from standing before or sitting upon his Throne last week. Nevertheless the last two Royal Courts of the season were held, with Queen Mary, who became 63 last week, standing with tireless grace for three hours before her Throne. George V's birthday gift to the Queen and Empress whom he calls "May" was a diamond pendant. No one could say whether she wore it or not at the Court, so encrusted was she with ropes, pendants and brooches of diamonds...