Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excellency the Turkish Ambassador. Perched on the edge of his chair, his high bulging forehead pink with excitement, he bid again and again, walked off with seven canvases at prices ranging from $22.50 to $475. The latter was the price of an enormous highly varnished Harem Scene by Benjamin Constant...
...from the start. Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience and a gaoler from taste." Napoleon and his entourage shut themselves up in Longwood, their uncomfortable quarters high up in the hills, while Sir Hudson fumed in Jamestown. Both parties kept up a constant barrage of verbal and written insults, orders, recriminations, complaints. In order to annoy Sir Hudson and make it appear that he was being starved, Napoleon had some of his silver plate sold at public auction; Sir Hudson got back at him by searching the Longwood laundry for smuggled letters...
Bathing suits were provided for the customarily nude Harvard swimmers and chaperones representing both colleges kept a constant vigil. The entire "dip," including towels and bathing suits, was free...
...well-known Constant Remy has the leading role of Capitaine Dognereau one of the conspirators. With more than a trace of grim fatalistic humer, he goes to his death. If the other characters had approached his standard of acting, the film would have been more worthy...
Tribune and onetime director of Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. A Dartmouth graduate, Son Russell won the Prix de Rome as a muralist about 20 years ago. His later rebellion against the stiffness of academic tradition is still a driving force behind his constant technical experiments. In the Cairo American Express office seven years ago he met the former Women's Page Editor of the New York Sun, eloped with her within two weeks to Munich. He has spent six months in Bali, lives part of every year in Santa Fe. Of his painted abstractions last week...