Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next evening she ascended the Pincian Hill, leaped off the 40-foot embankment of the sometime Borghese Gardens, landed in a net spread by Fascist police "to discourage the frequent occurrence of suicides at this place," was haled before another Fascist magistrate, clapped into jail "until morning...
...image, thought and deed. He told Mrs. Toon in his note that he was "bathing his brow in the perfume of waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license. In a few months he was to publish The Sphinx, a poetic catalog of "amours frequent and fine," dedicated to one Marcel Schwob. He had played and acted many variations upon his epigram, "Industry is the root of all ugliness." The next year, 1895, he was to be branded publicly and sent to prison for perverted practices...
...Crimson second forward line of Scott, center and Zarakov and Harding wings, has been coming along rapidly in the recent games and it is possible that this combination will be the first to face the invading team tonight. The two lines will probably be kept intact and substituted at frequent intervals. The fight for the right defense berth is still on between Coady and Clark and it is uncertain which one will land the regular job along with Pratt. Captain Cumings, whose work in front of the net has been one of the bright spots in practically every game...
...Justice of the Supreme Court) declared in a letter to the Trade Commission: "It is apparent, therefore, that during the time covered by your report the Aluminum Co. of America violated several provisions of the decree; that with respect to some of the practices complained of they were so frequent and long continued that a fair inference is that the company either was indifferent to the provisions of the decree or knowingly intended that its provisions should be disregarded with a view to suppressing competition in the aluminum industry." But he pointed out that what the Trade Commission had gathered...
Incidentally the sympathetic treatment which Mr. Cummings, despite his eccentricities, his appallingly frequent parentheses, and the occasional obscurity of his symbolism, has been accorded by his reviewers is an encouraging sign of the growing maturity of criticism. The contrast between the present ideal of interpretation and the old reviewer's method of judging according to fixed principles, shows how the function of criticism has changed since the days of the supremacy of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Review...