Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trumpeted Governor Johnston: "During my administration as Governor of South Carolina I have backed the reforms and policies of President Roosevelt 100%. In South Carolina . . . the policies of the New Deal . . . have lost none of their popularity. My campaign for the Senate will be based on a record of constant, unshakable loyalty to the Democratic platform and the head of our party, President Roosevelt...
...behind Glyndebourne is Capt. John Christie, wealthy ex-science teacher at England's swagger Eton College, and present owner of Glyndebourne Manor. A lifetime lover and patron of music, a constant attender at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Captain Christie long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing...
Chubby Presiding Genius Quin Ryan, whose radio activities include reading funnies to the kiddies and broadcasting football games, takes any angle suggested by the answers he gets to his inquiries about newlyweds' problems and personalities. He broadcasts in constant terror of a scandalous answer, recalls with horror the girl who told the listening world that she had for months been trying to cure her fiance of the habit of smoking...
...ordered shot in his false identity as a German deserter. Gradually, as one soldier after another was shocked at the injustice, his case became the centre of a major conflict. A sergeant tried to save him, then a lieutenant, finally a general. They compromised their army careers, suffered the constant temptation to let the whole affair go. When millions of men were dying, what difference did the death of one more make...
...cast-iron constitution, one that can digest a season in Palm Beach, too many rich luncheons at 21 and the Colony, nights out at the Stork and El Morocco and the constant battering of debutantes who are determined to get into the movies via the front page...