Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines just because it is a convenient method of prolonging their existence around the vicinity of Harvard Square will get an unpleasant awakening when they find themselves having to live up to the corp's expectations of an "active leader of men . . . forceful, aggressive, determined, courageous, and endowed with tireless endurance." Washington may let students finish college, but it wants more than gratitude in return...
Died. "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 71, founder and guiding spirit of the energetically anticlerical, antiwar, anti-State Jehovah's Witnesses sect; in San Diego. A tireless orator, he was a youthful admirer of Orator William Jennings Bryan, affected a high-standing wing collar, string tie, capacious hat. He was legal adviser to Sectarian Charles Taze Russell, leader of the "Russellites," took over the organization after Russell's death in 1916, renamed it Jehovah's Witnesses, built it into a group claiming two million members. Rutherford was jailed in World War I for advocating war resistance, was released...
...male, his pants and socks dragging, his sports ruined, his wife bulging in the wrong places, his balloonless children teething on wood, his car tireless in the garage, riding off to work on a hard-benched bus or subway, unable to erase mistakes, or snap a band around them, could now really get down to hating Japan and the Axis...
Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words...
With this novel, James T. Farrell, tireless author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy and its sequels, moves from the noisy and redolent cellars of shanty Irish up into the parlor...