Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such an institution. Of the making of many books there is proverbially and truly no end; but the making of many books is not its only function; and only the shortsighted will deny that the deciphering of ancient tablets is not, in its way, as important as the constant warfare against disease which goes on in the medical school. It it a truism that from the past men may understand the future; it is also a truism, but a pleasant one, that on the empire of a modern university the sun never sets...
Wilbur--Ethel Barrymore in "The Constant Wife"--8.10 o'clock.--Miss Barrymore amuses whenever Maugham bogs down...
...plot of "The Constant Wife" is easy of comprehension. Miss Barrymore has the part of Constance Middleton, wife of a Harley Street Surgeon, John Middleton. John is having an affair with Marie Louise, a great friend of Constance's. Constance knows of the liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject...
...COUNTERFEITERS-Andre Gide -Alfred A. Knopf ($3). A chief character is the novelist. He describes how he is planning his book; observing characters; taking notes. The book is a story of this planning, broken into bits of narrative, snatches of dialog, description, with constant quotations from the author's own diary in which he comments on the theory of the novel and the progress of his own. M. Gide is French; his book set in Paris, Switzerland, etc., etc. The book has no story in the accepted sense; is often described by the character-novelist as "a slice...
...Engineering School is one of three technical Institutions chosen in 1923 to carry on the cable experiments, and a committee representing practically the entire electrical industry keeps in constant touch with the progress of the work...