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...India Company, which harbored more peculiar individualists than any stock-company in history, had ever had to deal with so strange an imperialist as Raffles. While his fellow nabobs made their fortunes in spices and property, or sank into fatty degeneracy under the stewing sun, Raffles immersed himself in tireless study of his surroundings-establishing a tradition of government research that has made Indonesia one of the best documented areas of the British Empire. Botanist, cartographer, linguist, historian, Raffles tramped the jungles of Sumatra, Java, Batavia-areas wrested from the Dutch by Napoleon and, in turn, taken from the French...
...Austin, a tireless worker, has unflagging enthusiasm for U.N. Says he: "Practice, difficult at first, will develop into custom, custom into faith. . . ." Though an idealist (and a sentimentalist at times), Austin has a hard Yankee core, and likes to win. But, says he: "The will to win should generate the will to do justice...
John S. Sumner, tireless peeper for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, clucked at current life & letters generally, but he was not downhearted. "The pendulum always swings wide from one side to another," said he. "The décolleté of the Directoire was followed by the pantalettes of the Victorian era." Had he noticed the latest bathing suits? He never visited the beach. "If they can swim better in them," he hazarded generously, "I suppose they are all right; but if they sink they have themselves to blame...
Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...
...Harrison ("Best-Dressed") Williams was back in Capri after long exile in Manhattan and Palm Beach. The tireless, chin-up hostess and amateur flower gardener flew across, picked up her old chauffeur in Paris en route. Soon word came back to the New York World-Telegram's society editor that "Mona" was "seen daily being driven through the streets of Capri in first one, then another of her long, sleek and luxurious limousines...