Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gigantic hat, he whose shadow has so often swept across the screen of the University, has come from Hollywood, and he has shown that the mania for handling big receptions in a big way is not a growth that flowers only in the adult mind. The germ is implanted in the child's first consciousness, and flourishes from that time on. But though the mature can claim no monopoly in its possession, they alone are able to release it install its dazzling light. The top hats, the mile-long parade, and the tons of confetti are theirs alone...
Ojai, Calif., is quite often the scene of strange goings on (TIME, May 21); never has it been the scene of a queerer ceremony than that which graced the summit of one of its hills on a mild evening last week...
Roger Wethered is one of the best amateur golfers in England (British Amateur Champion 1923), and one of the most aristocratic. He is a friend of the Prince of Wales and often plays with him. Last week Roger Wethered got to the finals of the British Amateur at Prestwick, Scotland, and found that he had to play against someone named Perkins. Nothing was known about Perkins except that he was 24 years old and that his initials were T. P. Some people pointed out that Perkins is traditionally a butler's name; others took Mr. Wethered's opponent...
Pheleas Bedard was a mime as well as a singer. His little face was covered with a tufty white beard above which two tiny eyes were set like shoebuttons. He often lifted his eyebrows in an arch grimace, to show that the rhyming words had a double meaning...
Mainly, The Front Page depends upon atmosphere for its effect: the presence of lazy, autocratic, hard-boiled newspaper men, their brisk telephone talk with editors, the gay, courageous casual crockery with which newsmongers ply their often disreputable trade. Funny, quick, exciting, and, despite its exaggerations, highly informative, The Front Page seemed full of good reporting. Hildy Johnson was Lee Tracy, out of Broadway; the women's parts were few and not imposing; Phyllis Povah cleverly impersonated a chewy little tart...