Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city will be rocked and shattered, with Elmer Davis asking in Harper's "What Has Happened to Boston?", with the memory not yet obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in the pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel being in the fact that both cities lost their majesties, the one through luxury, the other through misplaced...
...Loveman is Associate Editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, widely considered the foremost of its kind in the U. S. More than 20,000 constant readers depend on it to guide their tastes in books. Miss Loveman makes no speeches, marches in no parades, is seldom mentioned on the radio. She gets out The Saturday Review. Accurate, tireless, tactful, intelligent she is a serene, important, almost indispensable character in the book of literary life. In honor of good deeds done quietly she was given the first copy of Claire Ambler. Her book was autographed by F. N. Doubleday, George...
...McKillip stated that operating on the tail of a horse and the immediate application of the tail-set was extremely painful for at least 36 hours. This, in itself, ought to be enough to spell its doom. He said that horses became accustomed to the constant wearing of the tail-set afterward, but as a "Defender of Animals" wrote me today: "I presume it is on the same theory that, if one hangs long enough, one must necessarily become used...
Through the bronze window tellers slid printed sheets: "Whereas, the distribution of $2.50 gold pieces by savings banks as well as commercial banks during the past few years has been a constant cause of irritation to banks and to the public...
Flood Control. Simplicity wore a wry mask when the President wrote: "The Government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazard of the elements. We shall always have flood and drought, heat and cold, earthquake and wind, lightning and tidal wave, which are all too constant in their afflictions. The Government does not undertake to reimburse its citizens for loss and damage incurred under such circumstances. It is chargeable, however, with the rebuilding of public works and the humanitarian duty of relieving its citizens in distress...