Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CECILS (125 pp.)-Benjamin Constant -New Directions...
Finally, eight white and four Negro families got together and started distributing signs to their neighbors, stating: THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE. Attached to the sign was a letter: "We like this neighborhood . . . Constant pressure from real-estate brokers is annoying and we resent it ... We have found that some white families are still under the mistaken impression that a community or block must remain all white or 'go all colored' [and] that property values decline when colored families move in ... Values do not decline except during panic selling...
Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...
Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...
Unpretentious Jessie Wilson, who did not expect to enjoy the social whirl when she came to Washington, has found her constant round of luncheons, teas and dinners arduous but fascinating. Says she: "Sometimes I feel as though my face will crack." The Wilsons also try to get home early, and generally succeed. Their most notable failure in this respect occurred in February, at a party in honor of Admiral Arthur Radford. At 11 o'clock Jessie Wilson wearily told Mrs. Radford that she wished "somebody would do something" about going home. Confided Mrs. Radford: "Nobody can do anything until...