Word: usual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends regard him as Moist, if not Wet. To jack up the saggine morale of the Navy will be a man-sized job for him, which he will doubtless undertake with his usual quiet determination. He may be a yes-man to the White House occupant but to the admirals who flock around every Navy chief with selfish advice and suggestions he will most likely listen patiently and then, a seadog himself, bark...
Dance of Death. "Beware the Socialists!" was the gist of a rousing campaign speech which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin exhaled into the sooty air of Manchester. As usual, Squire Baldwin, benign scion of an old iron-mongering family, seemed comfortably content with himself and the world...
...preparation was of the simplest, involving only the removal of Queen Maria Christina's secular garments and the robing of her corpse in the habit of a nun, for King Alfonso absolutely forbade that the body should be embalmed. He also refused to permit the taking of the usual state photograph of the corpse...
...against M. I. T. on the Charles River course. This will be followed by a race with Cornell over the same course on May 11 and a triangular regatta with the United States Naval Academy and Pennsylvania at Annapolis on May 18. The annual race with Yale will, as usual, be held on the Thames in the latter part of June...
...sketches themselves are highly entertaining, and afford a pleasing contrast to the usual run of theatre offerings. Laid mostly in a Russian milieu, the acts have a character only to be compared with that of previous tours of this company...