Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after defeat in the World War. Her currency is still debased, her people impoverished. She is disarmed, and yet her public peace is menaced by the organized brigands of Macedonia. Therefore when 30 earthquake shocks smote Bulgaria, last week, the phenomena seemed like the act of a malignant and relentless...
Author Johnston shows no trace of youthfulness in the grim story she tells with relentless force, compassion, and restraint...
ETCHED IN MOONLIGHT-James Stephens-Macmillan ($2.50). Variety is color. Etched in moonlight there is no variety-only the alternating black and silver of sparse trees afar off, and the relentless greys of the vegetation underfoot. Striding through this spectral world they come, these three, to the deserted castle, where the jealous lover imprisoned his love and her betrothed. Fugitive, he roams the ends of the earth year after year, tormented by fear and remorse, until at last his cycle of self-recrimination brings him again to the silent castle and the "faces cut by the moon to a sternness...
...Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department of the Institute of Experimental Medicine at St. Petersburg (Leningrad). From then on, his path was undeviating, scrupulous, relentless. His "Work of the Digestive Glands" was crowned by the Nobel Prize in 1904. Having mastered the mechanics of digestion he started speculating on psychic stimulation, the power of suggestion on the lower organs. He conditioned various animals to a bell, to a light, to a color, to the beats...
...Rubber Exchange in Manhattan (Francis R. Henderson, President), is a quiet-looking place. The architecture is sort of Dutch, about as Dutch as the Stock Exchange is Greek: a burgomaster's mansion, not the temple of a relentless cult. The quiet winding stretches of South William Street have just enough of Amsterdam's canals to make the visiting Dutch rubber trader homesick. The dark-red bricks are so well woven together, the boxes of flowers on the window ledges are so neatly kept, the whole place is so clean-it is a bit of Holland low-country snuggling...