Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is one thing to be said for Hollywood. Once it finds a formula that works, it sticks to it. It's pretty constant that way. It seems to make a lot of money that way, too. But, unless you haven't gone to many movies recently, don't go to "What A Woman." You must have seen it before...
Last week, more clearly than before, Canada saw the shape of her constant dilemma: How to reconcile membership in the British Commonwealth with her geographical position, her national aims...
Where to take your wife or the current woman you love is a constant problem in Boston, I've found. (I didn't mean it that way, bub; I'm talking about going out). It's especially rugged if you have an overtrained musical car that refuses to take in anything with fiddles, accordions, or rhumba bands from Brookline-on-the-East River, pronounced Flatbush...
Jimmy is also a pinwheel satirist. He constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire...
During one island assault in the Solomons, in the space of one day, under constant enemy bombing, they...