Word: pursuers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, determined pursuer of the vitamin-filled life, had no such qualms. He not only celebrated his 81st birthday by making a parachute jump at Dansville, N.Y., but got in a plug for rich, natural foods. He snapped: "You could never jump with a parachute at 81 if you consumed that damned white flour...
Ryan is a determined, calculating pursuer: Heflin is a frightened--later desperate--pursued. Both are excellent and get fine female support from Janet Leigh (Mrs. Enley). Phyllis Thaxter (Parkson's girl), and Mary Astor, who picks up Enley in a bar and eventually leads him to his inevitable, and perhaps just, doom...
...Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would enter Heaven shading his eyes against the glare and protesting: "Oh! Oh! Oh! So overdone! So garish! So Renaissance...
Patriotic Savagery. As the century advanced, the bloods took on a deeper sheen of respectability. Savagery was given a patriotic purpose, and the pirate's victim rose out of the scuppers to become the pirate's relentless pursuer. Aimed now directly at the juvenile market, boys' magazines arose for every class, their authors ranging from Talbot Baines Reed, G. A. Henty and P. G. Wodehouse to a lesser-known host of "clergymen, headmasters, baronets, officers . . . titled ladies...
Donaldson trained his eye for swindlers; he also became a relentless pursuer of facts & figures in fraud cases. Among those he helped to convict: the late Dr. Frederick E. Cook, the polar explorer, for mail fraud. The catch which gained Donaldson promotion was his tracking down of a long-wanted train robber...