Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...players" effort in TIME, Oct. 30. True, circumstances have forced him to dig up a few bouquets to toss at this year's team and "the Major," but his apparent reluctance to do so and his "scoop" discovery of Tennessee as a major league team have forced this constant reader of TIME to take up his pen and write his first letter to an editor...
Before long the placid inhabitants of the placid Dutch seat of government were spreading the news that for some unexplained reason-and they feared the reason was ominous-Leopold III, King of the Belgians, was paying an unheralded visit to their Queen Wilhelmina. Despite a constant drizzle, a sizable crowd gathered on the sidewalks outside Her Majesty's little Palace...
...start thinking up a new play when he has a smash hit as when he has a flop. A friend has said that if Kaufman isn't a millionaire, he'll do until one comes along; but Kaufman may not be altogether fooling when he insists that constant work is something of a financial necessity. A generous man, he has never worshipped at the shrine of Compound Interest. "All I know," he once said, "is that I have earned a great deal of money and I haven...
...goes to all his openings (arriving with the ushers) and suffers through them. He hates first-night audiences-the swishiest and toughest gang in the world-and usually hangs backstage, "so I don't have to look at all those bastards out front." He is in a constant dither that his show will flop. After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril...
...talked of, cared for, feared, felt, thought, during the past ten years. There is an obsession, as readers of his novels would expect, with death; a strong interest in the "macabre" (a word he nowhere uses); a pervasive fear of war, of revolution, of the end of civilization; the constant meditation of a devout man who has abandoned formal religion. There are "portraits" of Gide, Stein, Cocteau; excellent observations on painting, sculpture, music, films, above all on writing...