Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Family, as usual, were proceeding by easy stages to their retired Scottish estate, Balmoral. Before leaving London, the King and Queen attended a U. S. musical comedy, The Vagabond King. Then His Majesty set out for ancient Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, seat of the Duke of Devonshire, while Queen Mary went by another route to sojourn briefly with her brother, the Marquess of Cambridge, at Shotton Hall, Shrewsbury...
Prince's resident manager, as every one knows. Last week he took the usual absolute precautions to prevent tourists from entering the 4,000-acre estate. Their Royal Highnesses arrived late, but turned out of their log cabin quarters at 7 a. m. on the first morning of their visit, went before breakfast to inspect the extensive and varied livestock herd, now featured by two ponderous and potent bulls and a superb stallion, the gift of King-Emperor George...
Last week President Frank said there would be some 120 students (men), housed with their faculty under one roof. They plan to study civilizations for two years, then to undertake the usual general or professional college courses leading to degrees. "The gist of the course of study in the Experimental College," he said, "is that it will represent a study of situations rather than a study of subjects. . . . The aim is to keep informal the process of learning...
...teaching the game; nor because of his skill as a golfer received any remuneration from any firm dealing in goods relating to the game; nor played for a money prize. Voigt has not lent his name or likeness for the advertisement or sale of anything except as in the usual course of business; nor permitted Lis name to be advertised or published for pay as the author of books or articles on golf of which he is not actually the author. He has not received any consideration because of his skill at the game; nor has he acted...
...constitutionally impossible for a Parrish to be really lugubrious. Innumerable small pranks and whimsies set off the pall of Gray Sheep, softening the glare of its irony, warming it with humanity. The morning of Helen (Mrs.) Rain's funeral, the eaves sparrows quarrel as usual. (She would have liked that.) At John Rain's embarkation, the tugs whisper fuchsia, fuchsia, fuchsia; then cough cocoa, cocoa, cocoa as they push the ship to midstream. During a prayer at sewing circle, Helen Rain peeps covertly at the Women's varying technique-pinching bridge of nose; clasping stomach; kneeling thoroughly...