Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came & went, and U. S. headlines were again reassuring. Next day, in an editorial entitled "Der Tag," the New York Times suggested that publicity was good for war scares: "Never before have Governments and peoples been so alert to danger as they are today. That explains the constant alarm signals. Perhaps it also explains why 'the day' is always postponed...
Meanwhile, able-bodied men are being constantly trained for the guerrilla armies, whose morale is high, and every Chinese has learned to sing war songs. As for Japan's Chinese hirelings in "puppet" government jobs, Captain Carlson declared: "Chinese guerrillas are very charitable in their views toward the Chinese puppets, declaring that most of them are loyal Chinese at heart. They claim to be in constant communication with many of these Japanese hirelings...
...startled readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with more than 7,000,000 readers. She is in constant demand as a radio and platform speaker...
...cinema's outstanding director does not imply that he is tops in all respects. As they acquire prestige, directors acquire specialties. Capra's is a certain kind of peculiarly American, peculiarly kinetic humor, in which the most individual characteristic is an extraordinarily adroit and constant use of "business" to accent the comic line. Unlike Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) or Leo McCarey, whose The Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture...
...automobile racer named Amédée Ozenfant who was making his first U. S. visit. His shattered English made intelligible by generous gestures, abundant enthusiasm, Instructor Ozenfant impressed on them the message he has been preaching in Europe for 20 years: that great art realizes the constant elements in human experience...