Word: tirelessness
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...friends assert that he has been "framed" by enemies among his former subordinates at Scotland Yard. His ill-wishers declare that unless the charges against him were true, the case against him would have been instantly dismissed. Meanwhile British Communists rejoiced at the discomfiture of one of their most tireless enemies...
...conciliated the Powers, "Prince Ferdinand" speedily pushed his advantage and became "Tsar Ferdinand" when Bulgaria emerged as a completely autonomous kingdom out of the Bos-nia-Herzegovina squabbles in 1908. The Powers recognized this title in 1909, and Ferdinand built up his country, which he styled "Mon Oeuvre," by tireless devotion to public works and by obtaining the annexation to Bulgaria of a part of Thrace in 1913. On Oct. 3, 1918, Tsar Ferdinand was forced by the victorious Allies to abdicate in favor of the present Tsar Boris. He has led a superficially retired existence since then, but rumor...
John R. Mott, famed holder of many an honorary degree, extensive traveler, tireless international social worker, presented $4,232,467.01 worth of budgetary reports, as General Secretary of the National Council. Once he declined to be U. S. Minister to China; his acceptance of other responsibilities has been without reserve. Sonorously he entoned a list of 30 countries in which a major portion of the association's funds were spent last year...
...powerful influence of Lenin's widow. Hence it is generally believed that Trotzky is now seeking the little Caucasus resort of Kislovodsk "for his health" in good earnest. He is reported to seem weary and to be aging rapidly- he who created the Red Army with the tireless fury of a demon...
...eager, never did get a man and made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...