Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West opened her new show, Catherine Was Great, in Philadelphia. Her first legitimate playwriting effort since The Constant Sinner in 1931, it was saluted as "dull" and "soggy" by critics. But Philadelphians kept packing in to hear Mae's latest line: "I've had a very busy day. Now I feel like seeing the man who's never seen a woman in his life...
...family's-eye view of genius was written by Son-in-Law Dimitri Marianoff, husband of Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, in collaboration with Writer Palma Wayne. Marianoff, who lived with the Einstein family for eight years, reports that the Einstein home in Princeton is visited by a constant stream of the world's great-statesmen, bankers, diplomats, composers, actors, writers, scientists. Hordes of correspondents from every corner of the world ask him for advice, money, help in scientific problems and personal affairs. He is deluged with gifts, which he almost invariably sends back; he once refused...
...Walk." Through this bloody action, Hays kept on recording conversations with Marines: talk, constant nervous laughter and incoherence. "Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you're scared, run," says a Flatbush, Brooklyn, boy. "Are you scared?" asks Hays. "Well, I couldn't sleep." Says one Texas Marine, wounded by fire from undisclosed Japanese pillboxes on a knoll: "You just got to walk till you find them...
...week's end the death toll had mounted to 158. Hospitals were treating more than 100 badly burned women and children. Hartford was a city of funerals. Every hearse, every livery car was in constant use; undertakers toiled night & day, and some funeral parlors were holding services at 15-minute intervals. In the late hours Friday, all day Saturday, all day Sunday the slow processions moved through the streets; the quiet crowds gathered, dispersed and gathered again in the cemeteries...
...will tune pianos differently for different pianists. Virtuosos such as Josef Hofmann and the late Sergei Rachmaninoff hire a favorite tuner's fulltime services. Perhaps the most famous piano tuner who ever lived was the late Eldon Joubert of Boston, who for 30 years was Paderewski's constant companion...