Word: constant
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Died. John J. McK'enna, 87, oldtime South Side Chicago Republican politician, and, as a leading ornament of McGarry's famous saloon at Dearborn & Madison, the original "Hennessy"-the constant companion and audience for Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley"; in Chicago. Hennessy, for example, once observed that the country was going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate...
From then on Nehru's autobiography is most fascinating as a study, in constant action, of three divergent political types: Nehru himself, his father, and Gandhi. Nehru's father, at 59, gave over his law practice and devoted the rest of his life to politics. A rich bourgeois, he was inevitably the most conservative of the three, and Nehru's differences with him, along with their great mutual affection and respect, form a fine, touching father-&-son story that many a novelist could envy...
...satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...
...Besides constant raids on Italian bases in Albania and on cities on the Italian mainland, the Eastern Fleet's naval planes in November pulled off the most dramatic single episode of the whole battle: Taranto. Catching a strong body of the Italian Fleet asleep at anchor, the British severely damaged three capital ships and two cruisers-giving Britain conclusive naval superiority in the entire Mediterranean, and thereby paving the way for another vital duty in the East...
Parrying questions about whether she would favor a national youth organization organized to further aid to England, she advised the H.L.U. members to include as many different political groups as possible in their organization so that they could have constant exchange of opinion. She intimated that her chief criticism of the National Youth Congress in Washington last summer was that it was dominated by a disciplined group with a narrow creed...