Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unromantic, pagan kind Mrs. Mead found in Samoa, is non-existent among the Manus. Children, like their father, who spoils them, are apt to despise their mother. They are callous about death, birth, the facts of life. Women get no joy out of marriage. Maturity and middle age mean constant debt and hard work. "Above the 35-year-olds comes a divided group?the failures still weak and dependent, and the successes who dare again to indulge in the violence of childhood, who stamp and scream at their debtors, and give way to uncontrolled hysterical rage when crossed...
...always common. Jean, the predatory, willowy Italian blonde, keeps stealing men away from Polaire (Muriel Kirkland), the redheaded, impulsive one. To do this Jean resorts to such tactics as removing her clothing, merely wearing a coat when she cajoles gentlemen into seeing her home. . In spite of the constant wrangling which her activities precipitate, the final curtain finds them all reunited, unchanged...
...heart failure, at his home in Port Washington, L. I. He was second of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father's metal projects was Daniel. Early he went to Pueblo, dinky distributing town of the southern Colorado Rockies, to plunge the first Guggenheim money into copper. Eventually the Guggenheims held chief influence in three of the world's greatest copper combines, in the nitrate industry...
...from satisfactorily solved and which are difficult even for advanced students of economics. Corrolary: Economics 3 is conducted in a very slow and deliberate fashion; it tends toward oversimplification; and the lectures remind one of one's preparatory school days in their careful topical organization and their constant repetition...
Greenland and the last rose of summer seemed far away from all this unsettled space beneath him where the constant passing and repassing of a new generation spun the unconscious tale of a Harvard that is swiftly changing. The poet Lowell beneath him facing the fresh quadrangle seemed to him a brother dreamer. Those two, alone, experienced bewilderment in the contemplation of these marks of modern education--the dadoes, the stippled floors of battleship linoleum, the Revolutionary tapestry, the purple paint and high table. Even the Georgian windows appeared unfamiliar in their rows six high and forty long. He took...