Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producing Once In A Lifetime, a merciless, hilariously funny lampoon on Hollywood and the cerebral content of its creatures. The only possible adverse criticism of the play might come from spectators for the near savagery of some of the blows which Mr. Kaufman deals to cinema folk with his relentless jester's bladder...
...week, those things "could be important leads into the crimes of the underworld, but their presentation has changed the atmosphere from one of co-operation to one of hostility. . . . The search [for Lingle's murderer] is confused and obstructed by publishers who should be interested in making the pursuit relentless wherever it leads. . . . The decency and honesty of newspaper work in this city is on public trial...
...smell of frying bacon from the Parliamentary kitchen permeated the House, and so many members rushed out to breakfast that only desperate efforts by the whips maintained a quorum (40). With all but inhuman perseverance Mr. Snowden sat on, ignoring breakfast time, snarling through the long, hot morning, still relentless as noon approached and passed. Suddenly Mr. Churchill challenged on a minor issue, demanded a division (vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced to yield, sour-faced...
Seymour Parker Gilbert: A young man called to the relentless task of carrying out the reparation settlement, who achieved the incredible...
...shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street. . . . If trade unions were allowed to function without the relentless opposition of large employers, they could tide their members over seasonal unemployment...