Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other nations can help to change the German situation. The first is the boycott, but to be effective, such a program must be international in scope, and I feel that it is now more of an emotional reaction than a scientific means to an end. The second method is constant declaration of public opinion against Nazi atrocities. This pressure upon the Hitler government is very effective, and I urge all liberals and humanists to employ every means possible to let the German Consuls throughout the country know that the American people do not sympathize with the brutal policy of their...
...eleven. She was pelted with flowers and kisses when she later played in Berlin in Shaw's Saint Joan. To learn English, Actress Bergner rehearsed in London in a play especially written for her, abandoned it to act successively in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Strange Interlude, The Constant Nymph. Currently she is in Escape Me Never, a companion piece to The Constant Nymph which will bring her to Manhattan this spring. When this opened, critics talked of another Duse but some galleryites booed, under the impression that Miss Bergner is a Nazi. She is a Jewess...
...twentieth century has had its good wine years, that Saintsbury learned by experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word of a man who had reached the age of 74 on a constant diet of fine liquor and rich food, and who, in retrospect, regretted nothing save the bad wines he had drunk. "Sparkling Lacrima Cristi. . . suggested ginger beer alternately stirred up with a stick of chocolate and a large sulphur match." George Saintsbury's "Notes on a Cellar Book" suggests fine...
...what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past." Adhering to this preamble, the program of the Liberal Club in the future will include "active participation in the political and social movements of the time, and constant adventure with new thought...
Died, Helena Paderewska, 74, wife of Pianist-composer Ignace Jan Paderewski; after two years' illness; in the Paderewski villa at Merges. Switzerland. She became the pianist's second wife in 1899 and until her illness was his constant companion on all his tours, sitting backstage at every concert. In Wartime she started looking after Polish ''War brides" and their children, established an asylum for 500 of them at Warsaw...