Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Activity at the tea, which was designed is introduce the two freshman classes to each other and to the virtues of PBH, was confined to sitting under the trees and sipping the endless supply of pineapple juice...
Funnyman Perelman finds endless inspiration in the vagaries of U.S. advertising. In Tomorrow-Fairly Cloudy he exhorts: "Remember that . . . 500 empty tobacco tins . . . and a 50-word essay on 'Early Kentish Brass Rubbings' entitle you to the Pocahontas Mixture vacation offer, whereby you retire at sixty with most of your faculties impaired." He tells how a Mr. Bradley was drowned in his cellar with his wife and family ("I should have specified Sumwenco Super-Annealed Brass Pipe throughout [but] at least . . . under the Central American Mutual Perpetual Amortizational Group Insurance Plan our loved ones need not be reduced...
...stronger aggressiveness leads to the masculinity complex, which often conceals a fear of the feminine functions, not a protest against them. In some women there is endless conflict and frustration between feminine and masculine-between home duties and a career, neither satisfying her. In still others the masculinity complex is sublimated as intellectuality...
...Divorcees. Woman's Jury is a three-way parlay of courtroom drama, confession, and the endless domestic problems of the soap operas. The problems come out of the mailbag. One problem is chosen for each program and presented to the jury, which makes its decision after hearing the arguments of attorneys (one male, one female) for both sides of the question. The juries (a fresh one for each show) are chosen from Boston's women's clubs. No two-time divorcees or multi-widowed women are allowed...
...fantastic world of which Author Seghers writes, this strange story does not seem fantastic. For Transit is filled with the weird reality of the flight of thousands of refugees to U.S. consulates that wielded a power of life & death over them. Day after day the refugees stand in endless lines, waiting for the precious documents with their bindings of red tape. Incessantly they discuss the same things-visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they sit by her side until death...