Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time fear spread that the crews might have to go hungry. Food stores were running low. But there was greater danger that some of them might be killed, for the vessels, with plates only five-eighths of an inch thick, stood in constant danger of being crushed by the squeezing ice. The potential destruction of property aggregated some $200,000,000; insurance lapsed with the first week of the month...
...When finally the opportunity appears-a chance to ship on his uncle's boat-he suffers it to pass because love for Ruth Atkins holds him to the farm. Robert's brother, Andrew, has also fallen under Ruth's spell. Incapable of bearing the constant sight of her in the arms of his brother, Andrew, a born farmer, seeks refuge in the ship that Robert has forsaken. Both men cross their natures. Both come to ruin. After futile years of wandering, Andrew finds his way back to the fields. Robert, dying of tuberculosis and despair, stumbles...
...Constant Wife. And what have the privations of monogamy to do with wifely constancy? queries W. Somerset Maugham in a play for children over sixteen. His heroine, Constance Middleton (Ethel Barrymore), observes her husband's liaisons with an indulgent smile, tacitly assumes the right to go and do likewise -and does. Her husband can take it or leave it. As the curtain falls, he takes it with a hard gulp, while she sweeps off to Italy for a six weeks' amorous sojourn with her bachelor admirer. A daughter is in "infinitely more competent hands," a boarding school. Love...
...Garrick Theatre on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday nights. The other current Pirandello play, Naked, might lead theatregoers to suppose that this one from the same pen is also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly. For this Pirandello play is broad. Sea Captain Petella, a blustering fellow, who returns to his wife once every three months or so, absolutely refuses to do his natural duty as a husband...
...with poetic reverence. However, "obviously, some specimens of these paintings must be secured for study at home, and, more important still, for safekeeping against further vandalism." For Mr. Warner makes it plain that the ignornt keepers of the chapel and the ignorant natives of the neighborhood are guilty of constant, unconscious vandalism against these ancient works of art. After witnessing with a shudder the desecration of the images by greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations, he proceeds in the solemn vein:--"Thus it was that I was enabled to set about a labour of love and reverently...