Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker Gilbert. Agent General of the Reparations Commission in Germany, he has been, in effect, the house physician for European money matters. Collecting from Germany, disbursing to the Allies, he has watched Germany's financial temperature and heartbeat for three years, advising here, criticising there, until he considered his patient ready to enter another consultation for new treatments. His chief reward for his work will be more work. He is to be adopted by the House of Morgan...
...plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch up with the Lindenthal vision, patient Mr. Lindenthal put a definite location (West 57th , Street) to his bridge, drew plans, estimated expenditures. But the City Fathers had other ideas, and when at last a Hudson River bridge was actually begun, it was the now-building structure from 178th Street to Fort Lee. Ironic, to Mr. Lindenthal...
...first time in the supplement of the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, in which he pointed out that the derisive exploitation of Lampy's attack on the House Plan resulted in "far-reaching injury to the University through the destruction of much good will built up by the patient efforts of Harvard Clubs and alumni, East and West...
...genial, cultured, industrious. His repute grew, his geniality increased, when last week he was awarded the annual Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects.* Artist Rivera's concept of revolution has nothing to do with either Pope or bombshells. It might be described as a patient communism, and it is reflected in his art. For him, art is a proletariat function, growing out of the hot little huts of peons, expressing their lives. "If I try to speak of my painting," he wrote last winter in Creative Art, "I do not know how to do it unless...
...Walter Duranty of the New York Times. Day after day, with infinite patience and good humor, he files despatches which cost his paper a great deal, and only occasionally contain really big news. By carrying something every day and ingratiating himself after long years with the Soviet government, patient Walter Duranty is able to get past the censor all the news of Russia that really matters...