Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart attacks. He had been to a football game two days before, then to dinner at his son's home. His male nurse heard the Fairbanks mastiff, Marco Polo, growling beside Fairbanks' bed, entered to find that Death, as it must to every man, had come to restless Douglas Fairbanks...
...Unburied, still restless is the antique lie about Salem witch-burning. Many a New England witch suspect was hanged; one (Giles Cory of Salem) was pressed to death; none was burned...
Twists. Like most wits, Kaufman cracks his jokes with a dead pan, goes through life with a mournful one. Rangy and restless, hard to know, harder to understand, always blunt, often brusque, occasionally brutal, he is completely free from affectations but bulging with quirks. He is frightened of growing old, or being considered rich, or losing his hair. He forms friendships slowly, feels he has few friends. He talks to himself, makes strange faces, nods his head -a woman who sat opposite his desk at the Times for a long time wondered why he was always graciously bowing...
...Idle and restless at last week's end were 55,000 Chrysler employes and upwards of 50,000 more in affected supply plants. It was 30 days since Chrysler Corp. began to answer union slowdowns with shutdowns in Detroit. Wage losses totted up to $4,000,000. The corporation had lost the first cream of 1940's new business, seemed willing to go on losing while its executives and union spokesmen bickered, belied each other, failed even to agree on what the fighting was about. Union wives badgered their men to get back to work. Union men wished...
Soon it appears that what was intended as an absolutely honest autobiography has turned into a fearlessly candid biography of his wife. A social worker, lecturer and minor fiction writer, Edith was not (as Daudet said the wife of a writer should be) a feather bed. Petite, restless, intense, she scolded at Havelock's manners, dress, undemonstrativeness, called him a mixture of satyr and Christ, alternated between tantrums and protestations of undying love. "The worst of me is in my tongue," she reassured him, but once she kicked him in the head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies...