Word: strenuousness
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...Mayor Charles Portilia returned from the Mayo Clinic, found that Acting Mayor Fidel Ghini had fired the police chief, appointed another, allowed gambling at a recreation club and twice fined the club $200 for the privilege. Explained ousted Alderman Ghini: "The money was for a new fire engine." The Strenuous Life. In Detroit...
Other Detroit companies meantime maintained strenuous disagreement with Ford's definition. In 13 plants, some 3,300 F.A.A. members continued on strike for union recognition. War production slumped, in some cases 50%, as workers floundered about without supervision. While the National Labor Relations Board and the War Labor Board debated on how they should treat F.A.A., Packard shut down and sent its 39,000 workers home. With foremen missing, Army inspectors feared faulty workmanship and refused to accept any more Packard motors (Rolls-Royce motors for Mustang fighters. Mosquito bombers). In stubborn anguish the potent Automotive Council...
...progressed through Bull Moose Republicanism and World War I service in the Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel offensives. It lived on in his hearty mule-driver's language and his adoption of T.R.'s "strenuous life," even to a half-hour's vigorous daily exercise until a week before his death. Politically it was manifest in his early mistrust of Roosevelt II (he called for "fewer and better Roosevelts", and in 1936 he was the Republicans' violently anti-New Deal vice-presidential nominee). But in June 1940, Knox and fellow Republican Henry L. Stimson entered Franklin...
Willie Was Right. Herriman wandered into newspaper cartooning because a fall from a scaffold made house painting too strenuous. He wandered into his greatest comic creations because an office boy named Willie, amused by a casually drawn cat & mouse playing marbles, suggested that Herriman flatly reverse the traditional cat-&-mouse relationship. Once Krazy Kat had made Herriman's fortune (around 1922), he left Manhattan, settled down in the West. For the past 22 years he lived near Hollywood. After his wife's death a decade ago in an automobile accident, he stayed much at home with his daughter...
...holiness. Monks are to be "wearied with labors for God's sake." Prayer should be brief "and with purity of heart, except it be perchance prolonged by the inspiration of divine grace." The whole Psalter must be recited each week, "for we read that our holy Fathers were strenuous enough to fulfil in a single day this task which I pray that we lukewarm folk may complete in the whole week." St. Benedict does not demand strict fasting but recommends that food and drink be cut to a healthy minimum...