Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Afterwards he did a strange thing for a Vanderbilt. Ever since a bullet-headed, thick-jowled Vanderbilt stood with arms folded in front of his hearth and said, "The public? Bah! The public be damned . . . ", Vanderbilts have been press-shy. Relentless editors have made the phrase more than a sneer?made is a symbol, like the legend under a carriage crest, of Vanderbilt arrogance from the day of its Staten Island patroonship to the day when a Vanderbilt turnout swerved onto a crowded sidewalk that the fetlocks of its four strawberry roans might not be sullied in a puddle...
...CRAIG'S WIFE?The relentless portrait of a woman who honored her childless home above her husband...
Local Censorship. The alleged attempt by the Socialist Zaniboni to assassinate Premier Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 16) was, of course, the excuse for much of this relentless clamping down upon anti-Fascist activities. News leaked through to the effect that Il Rivoluzione Liberale, noted anti-Fascist organ at Turin, had been suppressed; and at Rome a similar fate overtook the Avanti, Giustizia, Unita Cattolica and Voce Republicana, while other opposition papers such as Il Mondo and Il Risorgimento were "allowed to continue publication, although their entire issues were seized daily...
Last week chuckling Communists drained the Samovars of Moscow's lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...
...single afternoon. And it has driven the persecuted Cantabrigians to acrobatic changes of raiment; at one moment, clothes as close to nothingness as decorum permitted; an hour later sweaters and topcoats had recovered their usual prestige as necessities in combating the climate. Yesterday, collapses, faintings under the relentless torridity; tomorrow, beggars will probably be found frozen on the streets...