Word: gluttonously
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...glutton for work, Dr. Millis declared that men should be willing to work ten or twelve hours a day in a national emergency, though 40 hours was enough under ordinary circumstances. "Where the work isn't fun the worker is under a nervous strain and needs leisure." For him, he said, work was fun, and he was willing to work 60 to 90 hours a week...
Ernest Fiene (rhymes with meany) is a glutton for work. A big man, hard as nails at 46, with a temperament as tough as his constitution, he never paints one picture where ten will do. Result: 18 one-man shows since he left Westphalia, Germany (1911), a reputation as Manhattan's leading painter of skyline, waterfront, bridges, buildings...