Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constant Sinner. Three seasons ago Mae West's lusty singing of "Frankie and Johnnie" and the nostalgic flavor of bar and brothel scenes made Diamond Lil a Broadway hit. In The Constant Sinner, which Mae West wrote from her own novel, the bars and brothels are Harlem, 1931, and Mae West does not sing. But The Constant Sinner is no tame play, nor is it a dull play. Though handicapped by a more effete period, Mae West in some of her lines attains the lush bawdiness of her earlier production: "That dame [Cleopatra] went in for everything . . . she even went...
...people own most of the machines and the oil wells. The rest must work, starve or be supported by charity. And the great bulk work. Some few have learned the knack of living without work. They join the constant soup kitchen brigade. Many are too old or sick or maimed or insane. Nearly 100,000 people are in the almshouses, and more than 350,000 are in the state institutions for mental patients...
...constant reader of TIME since Volum 1, No. 1, I have noticed the article in your issue of Aug. 17 regarding my father, the late Walter S. Dickey, and the agreement between Mr. H. L. Doherty, M. B. Sharp and myself...
...people for the buildings. She has more than a hint of that knack Katherine Mansfield had, which many a Russian writer has, of holding a simplifying lens up to human nature. In this book of 14 short stories about Children and Older People you have the almost constant feeling that you are seeing people as they...
...made a name for himself by writing Landmarks in French Literature (1912); nine years later Queen Victoria made him a bestseller. Unmarried, 51, Strachey lives in London but goes to the country to work; "it isn't so much the noises of London that prevent concentration, but the constant social calls on one's time-the exits and the entrances." Other books: Books and Characters, Eminent Victorians, Elizabeth and Essex...