Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House callers were no more numerous, but far more notably assorted, than usual. There came...
When he came out again, Senator Fess looked overheated. His eyes danced and his collar looked too big for him. The merest cub of a White House newsgatherer could have seen that something had happened, that Senator Fess had something more than usual to say. He was, in fact, going to reproduce for the newsgatherers the conversation he had just had with President Coolidge...
...Manhattan. For 49 years a Damrosch has been host at the New York Symphony*- for seven years Leopold, its founder; for the last 42 Walter, the son. But at the first of the golden anniversary concerts given last week Walter Damrosch was not in his usual place, sat instead in the centre box and led the applause for Fritz Busch. Guests followed his lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden...
...decline on the exchange that reflected the country-wide depression now being experienced in almost every avenue of trade. U. S. Steel common, General Motors, General Electric and N. Y. Central shares, known as financial bellwethers and representative of industrial, railway and utility activity, were unable to offer their usual resistance to the present economic disquiet and concluded at prices considerably lower than they have notched for months...
...line on the offense. The fact that both Harvard and Indiana have crimson as their official color has led the invaders to abandon their traditional jersies in order to avoid confusion on the field today. Just what color they intend to wear in the place of their usual crim- son, however, was not divulged by the Indiana managers last night...