Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some distance away, Charlie No. 2 may go part way by plane or truck. Then he goes ahead on foot, seeming to wander aimlessly, pausing now and again to examine a clump of bushes, some disarranged grass or stones. When the trail becomes fresher he lopes forward, confident and tireless. Sometimes he warns that they had better hurry, saying "Bimeby he finish...
Died. Dr. James Ewing, 76, world-honored cancer authority, longtime professor of pathology at Cornell's Medical School (1899-1932); in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, which he directed from 1913 to 1939. He published his land mark cancer text, Neoplastic Diseases, in 1919, after 20 years of tireless, neuralgia-racked labor. He believed in no universal cancer cure, plugged research, early diagnosis...
Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour, tireless troop entertainer, whose picture is a pin-up favorite of far-flung Army barracks, decided to marry a soldier whom she met on tour. He is Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, 35, peacetime Virginia lumberman, onetime Maryland state legislator. Captain Howard and the onetime elevator girl applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first...
...training methods are both humorless and tireless. Major Harold Doud, who served six months in 1934-35 as an observer with the 7th Infantry Regiment at Kanazawa, found the life exhausting and looked forward to the regiment's first holiday. When it came, he found that the regiment did not let the holiday interfere with the regular day's work. Reveille was at 3 a.m., and before the usual breakfast time the men had worshipped dead Japanese in three separate ceremonies, dueled with bayonets, eaten some dried flounder, shouted "Banzai!" and marched up & down a mountain. Then they...
Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...