Word: timelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheered last week as they recollected the fate of Spain. Jews took fresh courage to boycott Germany, if necessary, until the Fatherland becomes a Baltic memory and the boycott of Nazis a hallowed tradition in timeless Israel...
...historical tone of his compliments. He is not interested in Kate Pettigrew. He loves her sister Helen but he knows, from old diaries, that Peter Standish married Kate and Helen died when she was very young. Faced by the wry problem of an emotion at once timeless and defeated, Peter Standish finally finds himself back in the 20th Century, but not entirely of it. He knows now why the epitaph on Helen Pettigrew's grave is cut so deep...
...guests at a country-house weekend, reviewed "good" and "bad" plays for a London newspaper, acted as private secretary for a Conservative M. P. called to Geneva to serve on some League of Nations committees, electioneered, went for a Christmas holiday on a freighter, and finally discovered the timeless heart of England in the slow-changing countryside. Occasionally, as when he is portraying the asinine and brutal vulgarity of the modern young bloods and contrasting it with the traditional wisdom and courtesy of the old generation, Author Macdonell's good nature breaks down into invective or falters into sentimentality...
Throughout the whole homily Beatrice Lillie parades her usual timeless and unalterable self, tiring to some, but to most an unending delight. Hope Williams has not altered either. As she was in "Holiday," so she is in "Too True To Be Good," boyish and earnest for the most part, unconvincing in many moment. Hugh Sinclair is most constantly heard: "Popsy's satisfied so long as you let him talk," is well applied to him. Ernest Cossart is excellent as Colonel Tallboys; we wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies...
...written as a political tool, nor yet as a grammar. It was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has known. It should be studied in the full realization of that sincerity and with high appreciation of its timeless truths...