Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discerning citizen would not be satisfied with any of these specialists as Man of the Year. Looking to Washington he would see old familiar figures passing below the political horizon-figures for whom 1932 meant defeat and exile. After four years of relentless effort unequaled by any man in the White House, Herbert Hoover remained a psychological product of 1928. Millions of citizens hoped that by some last-minute miracle he would turn out to be Man of the Year but more millions felt-and voted-otherwise...
...money for these things?"-a definite implication of satisfactory medical attention-and the Bankhead return with a drugstorish package. Does it interest TIME and M.D. Myers to know that the Faithless situation was founded on late Paul Bern's own description of his contact-while on his usual relentless pursuit of deserving helplessness-with a "real life" case wherein a young M.D. wished he could purchase medicines for an ethical "free" case-except that he had-because of these times-already used his every available penny for similar deserving cases. Sometimes moviemakers use actualities because they are more interesting...
...except oysters and parsley. I don't like oysters. I'm not fond of parsley?tastes like a grave." He "avoids regular hours of sleep. . . . Perhaps his most unexpected personal characteristic is that he never looks at a man's face and never recognizes a face. ... He can be relentless to the point of cruelty: the shock of his anger, which is a cold, quiet, laughing anger, is violent. ... He does not believe that heroes exist or ever have existed; he suspects them all of being frauds ... an incurable romantic . . . obvious menace to civilization...
...Duchess and Casilda are rather dull at best, but the Duchess at the Hollis hardly possesses the domineering thick contralto of the Savoy tradition; and her account to her daughter Casilda of how she "tamed your great progenitor at last" is more kittenish than relentless as it should be. As for Casilda, she sings too noisily, particularly in "There Was a Time," a delicious bit of Victorian sentimentalism that should be dealt with tenderly...
Harry Ford Sinclair, now chairman of Consolidated Oil Corp., was in Los Angeles on business. Thomas James Walsh, relentless investigator of the oil leases, still serves as Montana's Senior Senator...