Word: relentlessness
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...flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall, to "but in" on their behalf as he had not done during the apprenticeship of his brief ad interim term...
After its third successful appearance in Boston, "The Whole Town's Talking" begins to stand out as one of those rare performances which one enjoys more the second time than the first, and more the third time than the second. One is able at least to escape from the relentless grip of the fast-moving comedy to appreciate the skill with which every twist of the story is made to add a little more to the general excitement; one is not so entirely absorbed in following the action, one has leisure to ravel in the luxurious loveliness of Miss Owen...
...Significance. The anonymous author writes with a bitter pen. His book is a slashing, venom-dipped arraignment of Jewry, heaving its stinking bulk out of a diseased ghetto. It is a savage, relentless, yet unimpassioned, picture. The style is violent, unembellished. A crammed, stark, narrative. Many of the characters are recognizable...
...whole, the acting is better than in the ordinary mystery play. Ben Johnson as the millionaire Stockbridge is excellent, and we regret that his early demise prevented his appearance in the second and third acts. A hard, uncompromising, relentless capitalist, he nevertheless excites the sympathy of the audience, especially when he is sitting around waiting to be murdered. At this juncture the stupidity of the detectives reaches its climax; ordinary common-sense would have saved Stockbridge as eventually it saved the daughter. The daughter, by the way, is well done by Kay Laurell although she is a trifle too cold...
...face of such a situation (which I believe to be fully authenticated) other considerations are insignificant. Yet they should not be passed over. The case for the economic rehabilitation of Germany is at last disclosing itself with relentless logic to the self interest of the Briton. His country, so dependent on foreign trade, cannot afford to see the ring of commercial nations be deprived of one of its most energetic and contributive members with a consequent loss of markets and a general breakdown of trader's confidence. England has repented of the vindictiveness in which she was caught up after...