Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly at noon, Aug. 2, newspapermen, at the President's behest, entered his schoolroom office. Everett Sanders, his secretary, closed the door, stood guard-like. The President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
...usual, Mrs. Baldwin hovered in her husband's background. She seems the "perfect wife" of Mid-Victorian days, submerging her personality in that of "my dearest husband," and busying herself in odd moments with causes unquestionably worthy. Her triumph was last week, that no smart anecdote or pert story was "hung" upon her name by the American press...
Shrewd, he delayed his vacation beyond the usual date, allowing an impression to seep out that he would not leave Sofia this summer. Then, without warning, the royal motor car purred discreetly from palace to railway station. On the platform stood only one official: Premier André Liaptchev...
Captain Round's process provides for reading at normal speed. The Round records have three or four times the usual number of grooves of a twelve-inch record and rotate a third as fast...
...unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography of a Weathercock,' 'A Day in the Country,' and 'What I would do with Five Pounds.' I thought them much better subjects than usual, and immediately felt ideas pouring into my head for 'The Weathercock.' Yes, there he was on the church tower ... up in the wind . . . Jenny sat beside me biting her pen and looking cross and unhappy. ... The bell rang. 'Oh teacher . . i.!' 'Still haven't finished...