Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward and Mrs. Simpson from Manhattan's shipnews reporters. Though to these newsmen it seemed that the incoming Britons were deliberately evasive, actually most of them were sincerely bewildered products of the most subtle and effective press censorship in the world, a censorship whose chief weapon is constant official British reiteration that "there is no British censorship."* A distinguished British Innocent Abroad of the week was Miss Irene Mary Bewick Ward, M.P., a Conservative stateswoman accustomed to deliver to women's clubs in all parts of the world a lecture entitled Whether British Democracy Can Outlive European...
Lying down, stark naked, he rested until an assistant saw that unconsciousness was only a few moments away, rushed in with warm blankets, warm drinks. Last week at Yale Sir Joseph recounted his observations thus : "Nature dictates, as you all know, that the body temperature should remain approximately constant at 98.6° Fahrenheit...
Beyond the fact that they were contemporaries, casual friends, great draughtsmen and constant battlers for the recognition of U. S. Art, Artists Davies and Bellows had little in common. Supersensitive, romantic Arthur Davies, painter of moonstruck nudes in mystic landscapes, was so shy that he spent most of his life hiding behind a bushy mustache and the tallest and tightest stiff collar haberdashers could furnish. He would stay locked in his studio painting furiously for days at a time, occasionally lunched frugally with his good friend Dealer William Macbeth. Only his burning interest in the technique of painting...
Such a flood of desk work will not separate "Bogie" Boguslawski from a keyboard which he keeps in an almost constant state of agitation by teaching 250 pupils, performing in numerous concerts and broad casts. Once a protégé of the late Publisher William Rockhill Nelson of the Kansas City Star, Mr. Boguslawski learned what makes a news story from his patron. When straight news about himself is scarce, "Bogie" is likely to come forth with such a project as his proposal to promote world peace through voice culture, since animosity arises when unpleasant tones are heard...
...pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author Williams), cocky, ingratiating, cigaret-mouthing bellboy from a nearby hotel in which a woman has been sensationally done to death. Dan cajoles old Mrs. Bramson so skilfully that he be comes her constant attendant. Olivia be comes progressively aware that Dan is the hotel murderer, that the slain woman's head is in his battered hatbox, that he is going to kill her aunt. Olivia is also aware that she is falling in love with him. Climax of her disintegration occurs when...