Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the late Jay Gould, maker and breaker of railroads, lay dying, his devoted daughter Helen, then 24, was a constant attendant at his bedside. Last week at Roxbury, N. Y., Jay Gould's birthplace, she died, after a stroke, an extraordinary daughter of an extraordinary father, of an extraordinary family...
TIME, in reporting on contemporary poetry, aims to publish, as impartially as it can, this constant news: that poets have a responsibility of major importance to everybody, which individual poets are fulfilling, evading or ignoring in varying degrees...
...with Eugene Talmadge, Georgia's wild-eyed, wild-haired onetime Governor, that a brand-new addition to U. S. invective issued from Mr. Ickes' press conference. "The eneciable Mr. Talmadge," Mr. Ickes was reported to have called him. There is a word of Greek derivation, "enecia," meaning "constant fever." Georgia's Talmadge retorted: "Mr. Ickes' throwing away money will give any taxpayer a constant fever...
...shadow parliament" and in rebuking Daladier for refusing to convoke the French Parliament. Putting these laws into effect without consulting the people's representatives violated the spirit of democracy. Such uncalled-for methods will no more serve to produce the unity which that country so badly needs than constant rebellion against the forces of rule. When Daladier told the people last night that "democracy has triumphed over anarchy and disorder," America hopes that he meant a democratic and not a fascistic democracy...
...Malraux's photograph was not retouched. As any constant smoker could tell, Constant Smoker Malraux was about to light one cigaret from the butt of another...