Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past." ¶ The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune's Women's Conference on Current Problems heard both Mrs. Roosevelt and, by radio, her husband. "It seems clear to me," the President keynoted, perhaps with oblique reference to Japan and Germany, "that it is only through constant education and the stressing of the ideals of Peace that those who still seek imperialism can be brought into line with the majority." ¶ In spite of pleas by the National Retail Dry Goods Association to move Thanksgiving up a week so that the Christmas shopping period might be lengthened. President...
...should be leading a revolt against the Government." Not the cynical wisecrack of a dissolute sovereign, this pronouncement reflected King Prajadhipok's knowledge that his people regard him as their deliverer from the rest of the Royal Family, a horde of princes entrenched in hundreds of offices, whose constant meddling jeopardized the business of the State. The princes were swept out of their sinecures by the "revolt" of 1932, believed by many Siamese to have been hatched with at least the tacit consent of His Majesty who bobbed up smiling, no longer an Absolute Monarch but a Constitutional King...
...regimentation. It is not even dictatorial. It is merely a auisance to all concerned. The student must be sure of his plans a day ahead of time; he must, in many instances, seek out that elusive figure, the Senior Tutor, who must, in turn, submit to constant interruption in the name of moral order. This is not necessary. In any case, the Janitor remains the watchdog, and the twenty-four hour rule can have no other justification than Puritanism. The Janitor, moreover, is a handy fellow, easily and always accessible. There seems to be no good objection to a system...
Send me one thousand reprints of your editorial--we can use them for napkins for the tutors' table, and they will serve as a constant reminder of their evil ways. V. H. Kramer...
...into their parts than was actually there and were ably cast as the leaders of the Bowery in its glamorous era. Naturally it was necessary to show what happened to a girl from Albany in the wicked city. Fay Wray is the charming victim, and although she is in constant company with Steve and Chuck, she retains her simple, sweet, and virtuous habits to the very end. A superior "poof" from Mr. Walsh, the director, should help much in making other directors pay less attention to environment in the future. I heartily recommend "The Bowery" with the exception...