Word: tirelessness
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Christ Scientist, New Y,ork City, Mrs. Stetson devoted her tireless efforts. . . . But to return to Mother Goose , . .. let me quote the following from Mrs. Stetson's book...
...Managers, responsible for its choice of plays and general policy, consists of "a banker, a lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists...
...listened to the secretary's record of the previous period of traditional inaction, and passed on, serene in the accomplishment of nothing. It has also before it the record of its parent, the Council of 1923-24, which, being driven mad by the repeated goads of a few tireless souls, labored and brought forth several valuable mice among them, for example, the decision on Junior Managerships, which has since been neatly entombed somewhere in the inner sanctuaries of the H. A. A. It is within the power of this new-old Council to be a very real force...
...these resplendent citizens adopted a personal motto what better one than the famous "Ich dien" of German origin? Today, even at ninety, Dr. Eliot lives to serve, as of yore. Even as of yore, too, he does serve, knowing whereof he speaks, rich in information, constructive in suggestion, tireless in new vision. By right of service proved he belongs to the public whom he leads, even as he is the most priceless living possession of Harvard College...
...farm was lovely Arlette, whom the village thought half-demented -Scevola had saved her body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...