Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respectfully informed him that "a Cabinet member ought to have sufficient judgment to know better." Mr. Wilbur blinked and stayed. Republican Leader Tilson got up to meet the storming Democrats with the ambiguous remark that it was a great pity that Cabinet officials did not come to Congress more often, and the Messrs. Hudson and Britten assured him that Secretaries Taft and Josephus Daniels used frequently to mingle with Congressmen on the floor of the House. Mr. Wilbur stayed to the bitter...
...While none is quite of the Metropolitan Opera calibre, all have excellent voices and there is among them a degree of teamwork which is often lacking in the company of stars. The company certainly justifies its claim of being singing actors. They sing to each other and not at the audience...
...appreciation of opera (both aesthetic and financial) is often regarded as the prerogative of the largest cities-of Manhattan and Chicago, particularly. Last week San Antonio, Tex., had a turn, received the Chicago Civic Company with two capacity houses on the same day, paid some $50,000 for the privilege, $5,000 of which, as clear profit, was returned to the guarantors...
...strange how far manuscripts and other literary documents often wander from the place of their source but it is more remarkable when, in the course of their peregrinations, they eventually arrive at the place where they properly belong. One instance of this, however, is to be found in a manuscript which has just been acquired by the Grolier Book Shop and which is on exhibition there. This is none other than the original manuscript of "Streets of Night," a novel by John Dos Passos...
...Vestal robs him of none of his glory. His marksmanship is still deadly, his virtue is still above the ordinary, and his adventures are still hair-raising. But he now becomes something which he never was before--a human being. Several times he misses his mark; he was, if often more crafty, several times outwitted by the Indians; and his exceptional virtue did not prevent his twice marrying without benefit of clergy...