Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became part of the carefully nurtured legend of Alexander Woollcott. The legend was no more varied than the man. Despite his activities as dramacritic, radio raconteur, cinemactor, women's club lecturer, magazine contributor, author (While Rome Burns, etc.), playwright, Broadway actor, he achieved his greatest success in the tireless, diverse role of Alexander Woollcott-a complex of childish petulance, fierce, blind loyalties, sentimental sophistication, and a cannibalistic curiosity about people and things...
...newsmen because he knew what the grand jury was doing, while they did not; he had the satisfaction of watching as the grand jury handed down 34 indictments based often on evidence Dillard Stokes had dug up; in July 1942 he received the Heywood Broun Memorial award for "persistent, tireless, intelligent" newspaper effort...
Readers of The New Yorker, where these mordant bits of whimsy first appeared, know Artist Charles Addams as a tireless illustrator of the now commonplace question: Is the world going insane? (see cut). He cares not who makes a civilization's laws so long as he can draw its neuroses. Last week Artist Addams' screwy drawings were collected for the first time in book form (Drawn and Quartered; Random House...
Died. Cosmo Hamilton, 70, writer-brother of Writers A. Hamilton Gibbs and Sir Philip Gibbs (he took his mother's maiden name when he began to write); of pneumonia; at Shanley Green, England. A tireless jack-of-all-writing, he averaged a novel a year most of his adult life...
Died. Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, 73, veteran roving columnist of the New York Sun (Bob Davis Reveals), expert amateur photographer, famed helping-hand-to-struggling-authors, tireless writer of reminiscences; in Montreal. Amiable, gregarious, easygoing, prolix, he had been drifting pleasantly around the globe writing casual thrice-weekly pieces for the Sun for more than 15 years, scattering harmless anecdotes he had been accumulating ever since he began making friends as a Munsey magazine editor in the early 1900s...