Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Lords as a Court of Appeal (as Speaker of the House of Lords he gets an additional ?4,000) or over the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Also, in the words of the late, great Jeremy Bentham, the Lord High Chancellor is "the chief and most constant legal adviser of the King in all matters of law . . . keeper of the great seal, a various, multifarious and indefinable office . . . the possessor of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated." The Lord Chief Justice of England actually presides in King's Bench division...
...Leisure Class (1899), made a splash whose ripples are still spreading. Veblen was surprised at its popularity, annoyed that it was taken as a satire on aristocracy. Such Veblenian phrases as "conspicuous waste" became famed. So did the Veblenian style, which H. L. Mencken compared to "a constant roll of subway expresses," which Veblen himself parodied in such passages...
...French Paramount Players do themselves justice in this film. Liane is effectively portraited by Edith Mira, who appeared in "Les Trois Mousquetaires"; Rosine, secretary to Liane, is charmingly interpreted by Susy Vernon; and Constant Remy is convincing in the role of Santerre, the melleur en scene. The action never lags, and the technique of introducing brief interludes of comment from the outside world is employed with restraint...
...defeat its purpose, for reasons which, it is to be hoped, are all too obvious. At any rate, rather than elaborate upon the point at hand, these columns can do no more than offer a fervent prayer that Librarians will make sure there are sufficient copies of books in constant demand before precious money is spent on such relatively unimportant material as fills the shelves in the room containing the Delivery Desk. Wherever may lie the blame for the discrepancy in available volumes, the situation has continued too long, and should be remedied immediately, now that the Reading Period...
...leading role of the murdered woman, Edith Mera will be remembered for her performance as Milady in the "Trois Monsquetaires" which was seen here last year, while Constant Remi plays the part of Santerre, a suspect...