Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who go down to Grand street to see the final production of the season at the Neighborhood Playhouse, which had its first showing last night, will find a play so vigorous, so relentless in its determination to picture life, that they are almost certain either to have a positive opinion about it, one way or another. They are not likely to leave it lukewarm...
...hostilities came to an end along the far stretched "fronts". The guns stopped their clamour then; machine guns ceased their reaping; men no longer winced to the shrilling scream of the close-coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim days of 'seventeen-'eighteen. Unless indeed the author have something startling, something sensational, something preening itself on what...
...will disagree as to what should be thus disposed of. Some would eliminate all government, others, all taxes; down in New Jersey they are trying to limit the limitations imposed by the nineteenth amendment. Still others confine their efforts to the suppression of lumps in mashed potato and the "relentless elimination of cores from baked apples...
This tentative plan, for it has not yet become a law, has much to recommend it. We can all think of a residence district which some ten years ago was considered exclusive--some would have called it "high-brow". And then--the relentless march of fruit stores and tailor shops and lunch rooms, not to mention the red-front grocery. The "people of quality" fied. There followed a rapid decline in property value and a loss of much money. In the end, the locality was not good for much of anything...
...there be those who are distinctly "fed up" with "Main Street" and the like, they will appreciate the article in the current "Bookman" in which Archibald Marshall disposes briefly but effectively of the relentless realists...