Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large thick man, full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
...them confused in intent and darkened by deliberate secrecy. Courts generally hold that the good faith of one party sustains such a union, regardless of the mental reservations of the other. Promiscuity, neglect, cruelty, etc., open the door to legal separation as in any statutory marriage. The secrecy usual in a lover-mistress relationship prevents its becoming a common-law marriage unless time dispels the cloak and establishes public and personal acceptance of the union...
...Whiting concerts. Few music-lovers will be missing from Paine Hall tonight when the last one of the season will be given by the New York String Quartet. The program will be Ravel's Quartet in F Minor and the Quintet in F Minor by Brahms, and as usual the concert will take place at 8.15 o'clock...
Contrary to the usual custom of dissolving the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau at the end of the Midyear Examinations, an attempt will be made this year to continue the services of that body until June, according to an announcement made yesterday by O. S. Loud '29, first marshal of the organization...
...York's Hotel Ambassador, last fortnight, nervous and be-spatted Publisher Harrison refused to discuss onetime Editor Frankau. He also refused to discuss the purpose of his visit to the U.S., beyond the usual foreigner's phrase: "I am studying America." But, in alternately low-voiced and explosive sentences, he was ready to speak of his fondness for golf; his many publications (including Tatler, Sketch, and Daily Chronicle); his 25 paper mills in England, Scotland, Germany; and his 1,500,000 acres of esparto grass in northern Africa...