Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raised a fury of opposition against him and against the religious movement of which he was the leader. Although he had, repeatedly, urged his fellows in the evangelical party to take wives to demonstrate their Christian liberty, he himself waited until comparatively late in life because of the constant jeopardy in which he lived. The estimable Katharina bore him five children who survived infancy and herself followed him to his grave...
...Majesty sat, instead, almost day and night at the bedside of her husband. Five physicians were in constant attendance. The Emperor Yoshihito, a chronic mental and physical invalid, was struggling with a minor bronchial disorder which it was feared might complicate his other afflictions...
Guided into the paths of righteousness by these regulations the Freshmen of 1787 trod thorny ways with constant anxiety about hats and the right of way. And the rules quoted above are only some of the milder restrictions. More awe inspiring were the provisions requiring Freshmen to run errands for upperclassmen and giving to the upperclassmen unlimited right of chastisement in case the mission went askew. But sufficient has been said to show the humblest Yale Freshman who walks the campus that he is monarch of all he surveys in comparison with the lot of his unhappy ancestors
...intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches after a drop of three feet, thus affording a measure of amusement before taking. Their constant buyers have always been among the poorer middle classes everywhere, who cringe from a doctor's bill, but can afford lOc for 12 pills, or 25c for 40, or 50c for 90. Still, Sir Joseph, on a visit to the U. S. in 1912, could brag: "My pills are taken by dukes...
...style of the book seem to add to its interest. There are, to be sure, pen sketches of the externals of the poet's world, which are often vivid and readable, even if a few may not be strictly accurate. There is, too, throughout the book a almost constant use of the present tense alone--a trick of style fast becoming hackneyed in contemporary biography--which is no doubt meant to add liveliness to the narrative, but often seems to approach tedious affectation. There is even a "Time Spirit," who writes down now and then Mr. Gorman's views...