Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...firm, not unnaturally, took this as a personal challenge . . . Unfortunately we find that there is no trade agreement which would permit the importation of mantillas from Spain. Over a number of years we have received a constant stream of letters suggesting that we produce a scarf suitable to be worn as a head covering in church, and though we often gave the matter serious consideration, the right idea eluded us. The Vatican has now authorized the publication in Italy of a scarf designed for the Holy Year. This carries a portrait of the Pope and his signature . . . With the approval...
...Nymph. This between-the-sheets dialogue, involving an aging vampire and her rebellious gigolo, is one of many things in this novel that will cause admirers of Britain's Margaret Kennedy to grope for their shoes and steal away. In The Constant Nymph Author Kennedy showed that it was quite possible to write a bestseller that, though of no great breadth, was intelligent, sensitive to life and very likable. The Feast catches her with her literary standards down...
...looking for its shoes) when, for instance, a doctor mentions "metatarsals" and a sweet young thing asks, "Who did you say met a tarsal?" In a line here & there appear half-suffocated indications that Margaret Kennedy could still, if she wished, write another bestseller as good as The Constant Nymph. Even as God's amanuensis, she has not done it this time...
...twelve is a puzzle to her schoolmates, a trial to her teachers, a constant irritant who sends her unsympathetic father's blood pressure zooming. She lives on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes...
When asked whether the Navy's attention to the difference in the certificates at other schools might cause a change in Harvard's certificate, Captain Carroll T. Bonney, professor of Naval Science, refused to comment on that particular question but said that "the entire loyalty program is under constant study and revision. There have been changes in the past and there probably will be in the future...