Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night recently, the guard assigned to the miniature portraits room of the Metropolitan took sick, was sent home to recover. The next morning, it was discovered that a glass case had been jimmied, that six priceless portraits painted on ivory framed with diamond-studded gold had been niched. As usual, detectives were perplexed as to the motive of the crime. If the sneaks had coveted the miniatures for their $10,000 ivory, gold and diamond value, a search might profitably be conducted through the pawnshops. If the infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have been...
...might have seemed silly to Lena Wilson and James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., but for days before their wedding took place last week, newspaperdom was on hand at Grande Anse with questions and cameras thrice as active as for any usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null...
...Manhattan tabloids, knowing well the intrusiveness of their picture-takers, "played down" the incident, mentioning it only as though such things were in the usual run of weddings and publishing for the masses...
Leonard Wood, exceedingly feeble and emaciated, thoroughly ill, in Manhattan last week ignored himself as usual and spoke, not as the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, not as the retired major general of the U. S. Army, but as the doctor of medicine that he also is. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1884. An interne in a hospital where internes were forbidden to perform operations, he successfully operated on a child in an emergency and was dismissed for infraction of rules. He joined the Army as an assistant surgeon (1886). He served as medical and line...
...Anna Dean Dulaney, bacteriologist at the University of Missouri, crossed the University campus recently she found a young woman's vanity case. What she did with it she told last week in Hygeia, Health Magazine: "Somewhat more curious than scrupulous, I opened it, and there lay the usual powder puff. No longer could I repress my bacteriologic instincts, and I carried the little puff to the laboratory, where I made a count of the bacteria attached...