Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan [see cut] would give a bathroom common to both bedrooms and a closet for each. Also permitting the bedrooms to obtain westerly view. The cook would find both his kitchen and bedroom much more convenient and comfortable in my plans...
...have long expected widespread disease among the undernourished population of Leftist Spain. Last week their fears were realized. From half-fed, unheated Madrid came word that 40,000 inhabitants of that city of siege were suffering from pellagra, caused by malnutrition, which results in mouth and skin inflammations. Common in the U. S. South, where there is often a restricted diet of salt pork, corn meal and molasses, pellagra is caused by a lack of those vitamins found in fresh meat, milk and vegetables...
Dayton's schools were closed because the Board of Education was penniless, owed $61,936 and saw no money coming in before 1939. First screwy move to reopen the schools was an injunction issued by a common pleas judge. It was withdrawn when the schools stayed closed and the judge became impressed with the fact that schools cannot be run without money...
...their martyrly lot to be ribbed occasionally by their irreverent fellows. At Dartmouth College a Christer who did not take ribbing calmly was Harrington Kenneth Gates, nicknamed "Heavenly." Once, in the college library, Heavenly Gates with powerful fists ripped up a copy of Freethinker Tom Paine's Common Sense which someone handed him. Once he turned in tortured fury on a football player who said: "Say, Heavenly, if you've got any pull with God, tell him to stop this rain...
...derived the philosophy that the secret of happiness lies in trusting those one loves. The Carletons-card-sharping Colonel Anthony (Roland Young), mercenary Marmy (Billie Burke), fortune-hunting Rick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and gold-digging George-Ann (Janet Gaynor)-are a family of international rogues united strongly by their common belief in and proficiency at the more polite forms of mooching, chiseling and outright thievery...