Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esme Howard, the British Ambassador, was compelled to remain temporarily in or near the capital because of rapid naval disarmament developments. He. longed to get away to the usual British summer embassy at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Mass. French Ambassador Paul Claudel was likewise unable to escape because of the necessity of negotiating a postponement of the French debt settlement...
After a half-hour, out hustled Ambassador Dawes. He flung a few words to the newsmen: "I found King George delightful. I do not know what the usual ceremony is. I merely presented my credentials and stopped at his invitation for a chat. His Majesty was looking very well...
...three days. Astronomer Director Wolf of the Königstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg squinted at the white pall through telescopes and announced that it was a mass of finely powdered lava blown high in the air from erupting Vesuvius (TIME. June 17). He warned Bavarians to expect the usual volcanic twilight phenomenon - the whole sky turning orange at sunset and staying so long after the sun has gone down...
...lava cloud could be seen from Munich but not from Berlin, which is the usual scene of up-to-the-minute German novelties. "Never mind," wrote a Berlin wag. "We have a nice big cloud of our own this week ? all the way from Egypt...
...influence of upperclassmen is concerned I think it of doubtful value as regards Freshman problems. What would be eliminated however would be President Lowell's annual visitation to the Parent's league of Boston, to ask them not to invite Freshmen to Debutante Balls, and to answer the usual question about locking the gates of the Freshman Halls at midnight by saying "Madam, would you have me lock them...