Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome, Oct. 28, 1922. In accordance with the Prime Minister's recent decision, th«re was no public holiday-all Italy worked, except a few athletes who gave a demonstration in Rome. The real celebration, staged with the usual vigorous splendor, marchings with flags, flamboyant rhetoric, was held two days later, on a Sunday...
...celebrated the sixth anniversary of his birth. All year long he has been a good boy. His mother, Princess Helene, wife of the errant and onetime Crown Prince Carol, said so. And so blue-eyed "Mickey," as he is called within the court, received lots of presents. It is usual to say that the little boy-king prefers his toys to his throne-that it is usual when newspaper correspondents have nothing else to say; for it is not to be supposed that a mere child has any feeling about a throne and therefore cannot have any predilections in that...
...College a man eligible for Distinction may be exempted from one course in his Junior and one course in his Senior year, providing he has presented a satisfactory equivalent. That equivalent is realized by additional tutorial work, work more in the line of individual research than the usual tutorial assistance. This fits in admirably in balancing the lecture system with the tutorial, making the former of less importance as far as credits are concerned and emphasizing the value of the latter...
...originator of the game, and the Tarocchi pack of 78 cards has been held by many to be the first version of the modern deck. The Tarocchi consists of 22 Atutti cards and 56 Cartaccie, the latter containing four suits, each with four court cards instead of the usual three. These are the King, Queen, Knight, and Valet. The suit marks are Clubs, Coins, Cups, and Swords, and are held to be symbolic of the four orders of society, the church, the nobility the traders, and the rascal multitude...
...antics of gunmen, the blame lies more with its citizens than wit hits Mayor, who is after all only their representative; and if Chicagoans weary of being told to make their city streets safe for Americans before bothering themselves about the British menace, the remedy, as is usual in such cases, lies only with themselves...