Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whims of such tourists as Cornelius Vanderbilt (who liked to chew cold cigars), John Wanamaker (who asked "are you leading a Christian life?"), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (who liked his beef well-done). On one of the jobs, César Ritz formed a lifelong partnership with an obscure chef named Auguste Escoffier...
Frightful Shadow. In spite of his lifelong preoccupation with moral struggle and theological terms, Gide has said that he is an atheist and expects to die as one. He has also said: "I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic; I am simply a Christian." Like other devout atheists, he is deeply concerned with God, and an earnest reader of the Bible. His Journals and, indeed, almost all his books have religious overtones. Sometimes a Biblical text haunts him for hours at a time: " 'Except a man be born again.' All this morning I repeated these words...
Joan Fontaine's 1948 bid for the Academy Award, "Letter From An Unknown Woman," teeters perilously close to the brink of complete bathos for the better part of two hours, but it never quite falls in. Set in the Vienna of 1900, it concerns the lifelong passion of a pretty girl for a rather stupid young composer, played woodenly by Louis Jourdan. Miss Fontaine gazes lovingly at Jourdan while she is a child, and when she has grown up, runs away from home for a romantic one-night spree with him. He subsequently takes a trip, and after...
...Apostolic Majesty, Francis Joseph (his birthplace near Trento belonged to Austria until after World War I). He had been active in the Italian nationalism movement as a student at the University of Innsbruck. But he was a rambling speaker and a rambling organizer, and he had a lifelong reputation as a compromiser...
...articles such as this that a person should read your magazine. You may look to me as a lifelong subscriber...