Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes place. Agent Kelly fells Mueller with something which witnesses later swear is a blackjack. After five days, Death comes...
...Gone With The Wind which he will direct for Selznick International. "The girl I select," said he, "must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless." Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins...
Unable to cope with the relentless attack of the taller Yale Freshmen or to pierce the effective Eli zone defense, the Yardling basketball team bowed to a superior Blue quintet 46 to 34 on the Indoor Athletic Building floor, Saturday afternoon...
...reveals her expert craftsmanship, the narrow range of her humor, her keen eye for fleecy feminine affectations. It also reveals that her major contribution to U. S. humor has not been such jingles as her celebrated observation that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses," but her relentless parodying of those mournful laments on lost love that are the stock-in-trade of most U. S. poetesses...
Finally, according to Lord Cottenham. ''with the relentless surge of a hurricane, the big car went. It neither leapt, shot, howled nor roared, as other cars are not inaccurately described as doing according to their kind. It just moved forward very fast indeed. At about 50, I changed to third. At about 70, I changed to top. . . . Thereafter, I did 93. . . . These are speedometer speeds, but the speedometer is one that satisfies Messrs. Rolls-Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands...